Time for You
Sunny Brook Farms, Book One
Renee Harless
I had big plans when I returned home to my small town, but they didn’t include a retired hot-shot hockey player getting in my way.
The last person I wanted to fix up my historic dream home with was the handsome older man, with money to burn, who bought it right out from under me.
But thanks to my father, that’s exactly what happened. Colton Crawford was making my house a home, and I was back in my childhood room, trying not to think of the towering, gorgeous Adonis with a killer smile… and how much I hated him.
Or at least that’s what I tried to tell myself.
Because the more time we were forced to spend together in the dust and debris, the less our age-gap mattered.
And the more the sparks flew.
Colton was used to scoring on the ice, and after a freak storm left us sharing one tiny bed in his metal camper, the heat smoldering between us was hot enough to burn us both.
But just when I thought my sexy, new neighbor might not be so bad, real-life came knocking, reminding us what we walked away from.
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Table Of Contents
Chapter One – Autumn
Chapter Two – Colton
Chapter Three - Autumn
Chapter Four - Autumn
Chapter Five – Colton
Chapter Six – Autumn
Chapter Seven – Colton
Chapter Eight – Autumn
Chapter Nine – Colton
Chapter Ten – Autumn
Chapter Eleven – Colton
Chapter Twelve – Autumn
Chapter Thirteen – Colton
Chapter Fourteen – Autumn
Chapter Fifteen – Colton
Chapter Sixteen – Autumn
Chapter Seventeen – Autumn
Chapter Eighteen – Colton
Chapter Nineteen – Autumn
Chapter Twenty – Colton
Epilogue – Autumn
Acknowledgments
Chapter One – Addison
Dedicated to the girls that had to forge a new path
to make their dreams reality.
Chapter One – Autumn
“And then she asked if we had any larger eggplants just as she was making eyes at Coach Chisolm.”
“She said what?” I asked my sister Rory just as I set my oversized shopping bag at my feet, gently pushing the material with the toe of my boot to tuck it under the wooden table that made up my family’s vegetable stand. The farmers market stood in an open field in the middle of our town’s main thoroughfare and had been a staple of the community for decades. There were even pictures of my great-great-grandparents standing in the same spot as my sisters and I currently found ourselves.
Rory squealed, her eyes lit like a child watching fireworks when she realized I had snuck my way to the market. Alex quickly joined in. And as a trio, we rocked back and forth ignoring the looks of the people milling about.
The story follows characters who are trying to move forward in their lives after heartbreak, finding themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. As they navigate their personal struggles, they begin to discover the importance of love, trust, and letting go of past fears. Harless weaves a passionate and emotional narrative that highlights the transformative power of love, showing how it can offer hope and a fresh start, even when least expected.
