Approaching thirty and craving a life of her own, music therapist Tempest Braden loves her big family and small hometown but feels boxed in by both. A move to Pleasant Hill, Maryland, is the fresh start she needs, and renting a room on a farmette from ruggedly handsome, closed-off artist Nash Morgan and his adorable young son, Phillip, feels like a slice of heaven, if she can ignore the undeniable heat between her and the guarded single father. Nash bought the farmette with one goal: to give his son a loving, stable home. He never imagined raising Phillip alone or renting out a room to keep them afloat, any more than he imagined losing his brother or spending two years at sea with parents who seemed to forget he existed. Tempest's warmth and endless curiosity bring new life into the quiet, careful world Nash and Phillip have built, and for the first time in years he wants to let a woman in. But the strength that carried him through grief came at a cost, leaving him wary of opening his heart again, and Tempest must decide whether she can coax him past the walls his losses built.
