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She inherited a mountain inn she never planned to keep.He built a life he never planned to question.Rory Walker came to Laurel Ridge to settle her late aunt’s estate.Instead, she inherited Mountain Laurel Inn—along with a failing roof, mounting debt, declining reservations, and one very tempting offer from the hotel company she used to work for.Selling would be sensible.Rory has always been very good at sensible.Then she asks Beau Thornton for help.Beau knows every trail, overlook, and hidden corner of the mountains around Laurel Ridge. His outdoor adventure company could give Mountain Laurel exactly what it needs to survive.Working together was supposed to be business.Autumn hikes become late dinners. Renovation disasters turn into inside jokes. And somewhere between saving the inn and building something neither of them expected, Rory begins wondering whether the life she left behind was ever the only version of success.But keeping Mountain Laurel means risking everything on a future she never planned.And Beau has his own choice to make.He has spent years insisting that staying exactly where he is means he’s content.Rory is beginning to suspect it might also mean he’s afraid.The inn.Their careers.A future neither one saw coming.Sometimes home isn’t the place you never leave. It’s the place you’re free to choose.This was originally published as Autumn Kisses, part of the A Charm of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it has been rewritten and expanded for Love in Laurel Ridge Read more
