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She swore off romance the year he took everything she wanted. Now he's back, and the whole town says the oysters already decided.Frankie Vasquez is the only vet for three counties, and she tells herself that's exactly how she likes it. She came home to Halloran Bay to save a failing practice and the sick old mentor who raised her into the work, and if that meant losing the surgical residency to her infuriatingly polished vet-school rival, well, that's a story she's finished telling.Then Wes Ardell rolls back into town in an immaculate truck, a corporate clinic chain at his back and a plan that could shut her little practice down for good.The trouble is, nobody works a midnight emergency like Wes. Nobody else can read a chart, or her, the way he can. And the whole of Halloran Bay is dead certain the two of them were Paired at the January Oyster Festival. Never mind that Frankie has a strict, sensible, absolutely non-negotiable rule about it: the Pairing does not count out of season.Miss Oda just smiles and reads the shells. Because the oysters don't keep a calendar.The Pairing Rule is a sweet, closed-door, rivals-to-lovers small-town romance, and the second standalone in the Halloran Bay series. If you love a meddling matchmaker, a loud found family, and a happily-ever-after you can count on, pull up a stool at the raw bar and stay a while. Read more
