Give Kari Halvorsen a spreadsheet and sheтАЩll have it mastered by noon. Give her a broken sink in her brand-new home and, well, thatтАЩs a different story. Turns out her lifelong dream of owning her own house is very different from the realityтАФand itтАЩs terrifying.
Enter the guy next door. Rob Fox has serious do-it-yourself skills and heтАЩs more than happy to put them to work for his pretty neighbor. But thatтАЩs as far as it can go. HeтАЩs always been a disaster with womenтАФjust ask his ex-wifeтАФand he doesnтАЩt need an enemy in his backyard. HeтАЩll fix KariтАЩs sink, and thatтАЩs it.
But attraction has other plans for these two. And itтАЩs not long before theyтАЩre exploring more than the paint aisle at the local home improvement store. Now, itтАЩs a question of whether or not they can overcome decades of going it alone and build a foundation together.
Adele Buck is the author of the Center Stage series and the All for You series.
When not writing, Adele is a librarian at a Washington, D.C. law school. Prior to that, she had a short stint as an index editor and over a dozen years in corporate communications and executive relationship management. Even prior to that, she was an actress and stage manager.
She holds a theatre degree from Syracuse University and graduate degrees from the University of Maine School of Law and the University of MarylandтАЩs iSchool.┬а
A New Hampshire native, Adele has lived in the D.C. area for over 20 years with her fantastic husband and the requisite number of neurotic cats.