One Winter at Willow House

They know how to make a house welcoming. Can they learn how to make room for each other?

Seven years after her broken engagement, Clara Bennett returns to Willow House with a professional assignment: prepare the long-closed guesthouse for its winter visitors. She has built a career she values, and she intends to keep this job straightforward.

Then she discovers who is coordinating the renovations.

Daniel Mercer knows the house, understands the work and remembers Clara far too well. Working together means shared decisions, unfinished rooms and the uncomfortable discovery that some things between them still come easily.

Others never did.

As visiting craftspeople settle in and Christmas approaches, familiar affection becomes harder to dismiss. But attraction was never their only problem. Clara remembers what it cost to keep their old life running. Daniel must face the assumptions he once mistook for partnership.

With new possibilities opening beyond Willow House, they have more to decide than whether the guest rooms are ready.

If they try again, can they build a future that makes room for both of them?

One Winter at Willow House is a standalone, closed-door romance novella with a cozy winter setting, capable adult protagonists and a hopeful, happy ending.