Give Kari Halvorsen a spreadsheet and sheโll have it mastered by noon. Give her a broken sink in her brand-new home and, well, thatโs a different story. Turns out her lifelong dream of owning her own house is very different from the realityโand itโs terrifying.
Enter the guy next door. Rob Fox has serious do-it-yourself skills and heโs more than happy to put them to work for his pretty neighbor. But thatโs as far as it can go. Heโs always been a disaster with womenโjust ask his ex-wifeโand he doesnโt need an enemy in his backyard. Heโll fix Kariโs sink, and thatโs it.
But attraction has other plans for these two. And itโs not long before theyโre exploring more than the paint aisle at the local home improvement store. Now, itโs 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 Marylandโs iSchool.ย
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.