The Inn at Pearl Lake

When nurse Kim Petersen decided to live with her niece, Ava, in Pearl Lake and take a job at the village clinic, it was ideal, until Ava fell in love with their roommate Mark, making Kim a third wheel. Now she is stuck, move back home or try to find an apartment in the village?

Enter Dean Goodbody, former US Marshall with a physique worthy of his surname, whose verbal jousting leaves her pulse racing. When Dean purchases a dilapidated lakeside manor and invites Kim to move in, she accepts despite local whispers of hauntings.

Kim's mission is clear: demonstrate that her petite, plus-size, sassy self is exactly what Dean needs. Breaking through Dean's walls won't come without a fight—the man keeps his past life locked tighter than the clinic's medicine cabinet.

Now Kim faces a race against time: will she crack the code to his guarded heart before whatever lurks in the shadowy corners of that old house decides she doesn't belong?