Every little thing

Bailey Hartwell has a business that does well, close friends and a boyfriend she has stayed with for ten years, though the two have never made a serious commitment and the relationship has gone stale. Her life in the small town of Hartwell suits her.

The one thorn is Vaughn Tremaine, a businessman who moved from New York. Bailey reads him as arrogant, sure that he looks down on her as a small-town nobody.

Then a betrayal catches her off guard, and Vaughn shows a side she did not expect: he is a decent man. He has admired her independence, loyalty and free spirit for a while. The more he wants her, the more sharply he treats her.

This is a contemporary romance with an enemies-to-lovers slant. Vaughn's painful past drives him to pull away, afraid he will hurt her. That reopens an old wound in Bailey, and she withdraws, which is not like her.

Vaughn comes to see he has made a terrible mistake. The question is whether he can win her back.