Julia
I've just escaped my hum-drum life and a nasty divorce, bought a sweet little place on Fortitude Island sight unseen. When I arrive, I immediately realize that it is a sight, and I should have left it unseen. The old cottage is nearly inhabitable. There are only two contractors on the island and only one of them is younger than eighty. So that's how I wind up with Dawson Reed fixing up my place. He's entirely too sexy for me right now, but oh, how I want him to use his tool on me.
Dawson
She's a mess—both the ramshackle cottage and her new owner. Yeah, Julia Winston's got bad romance written all over her, fresh off a divorce. She pretends she wants nothing to do with me while I work on her new house. But I catch her watching me, so I know she's hoping I do something about the desire she's trying to avoid.