In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes

Sadie is in debt after an engagement that ended badly. Holden Rhodes, the reserved middle brother in the Rhodes family of Queen's Cove, offers her a deal: if she finds him a wife, he will pay off what she owes.

Then Sadie's aunt dies and leaves her and Holden joint owners of a run-down inn. Neither can sell without the other, so the two who have never gotten along must fix the place up together.

Working side by side changes how Sadie sees him. Behind the stern manner is a gentler man than she assumed. Their arrangement stretches to cover friends with benefits, and the heat is open-door.

Sadie keeps her side of the bargain and keeps searching for the woman Holden is meant to marry, even as she starts falling for him herself. The book is a small-town romantic comedy with a grumpy-sunshine pairing, and it is the third in the Queen's Cove series, though it reads fine on its own. The question it turns on is who Sadie is really looking for.