The stakes canât be higherâŚ
When high-powered investment banker Ava McCarthy returns to the Butterfly Lake Lodge for her motherâs seventy-fifth birthday, the moment is bittersweet. The beloved family retreatâsteeped in memories of childhood and sisterhoodâwill soon be sold, and this may be their final celebration within its walls.
What she never expected? That her parents would hire Hunter Beckett, the man who broke her heart and secretly fathered a daughter heâs never met, to broker the sale.
Hunter didnât come just for the commissionâthough he needs it to secure his sisterâs future. He arrived determined to set things straight with Ava, but when he spots a photo of a young girl in a ballet costume at the lodge, the resemblance hits like a thunderclap. Sheâs his.
Now, old wounds, regrets, and fierce emotions reignite as Ava and Hunter confront their past. She canât forget how he hurt her. He wonât walk away from his childâor the chance to finally build a future with the woman he still loves.
The stakes canât be higherâŚ
When high-powered investment banker Ava McCarthy returns to the Butterfly Lake Lodge for her motherâs seventy-fifth birthday, the moment is bittersweet. The beloved family retreatâsteeped in memories of childhood and sisterhoodâwill soon be sold, and this may be their final celebration within its walls.
What she never expected? That her parents would hire Hunter Beckett, the man who broke her heart and secretly fathered a daughter heâs never met, to broker the sale.
Hunter didnât come just for the commissionâthough he needs it to secure his sisterâs future. He arrived determined to set things straight with Ava, but when he spots a photo of a young girl in a ballet costume at the lodge, the resemblance hits like a thunderclap. Sheâs his.
Now, old wounds, regrets, and fierce emotions reignite as Ava and Hunter confront their past. She canât forget how he hurt her. He wonât walk away from his childâor the chance to finally build a future with the woman he still loves.