Holding Ground

Piper Rayne

Book 1 of The Mercer Family

Elliott, a single dad and summer-camp owner in the small town of Echo Lake, butts heads with Emelia, a corporate consultant sent to convince the town council to approve a lakeside expansion project. When Emelia ends up renting the cabin behind his house, their constant proximity forces them to confront the assumptions they'd made about each other. It's a cozy, banter-filled small-town romance about two wary thirty-somethings learning to trust again while navigating a precocious five-year-old, a skeptical community, and their own guarded hearts.