In the following months, Joss realizes that she doesn't only like Ellie and her family but that she also loves Braden. But when Shannon’s past comes back to haunt her, her fears may destroy the trust Cole has built between them—and tear them apart for good. But once Rain Alexander walks into his life, there’s no denying that this woman could be worth much more than a one-night stand…. These children were required to stay on the gravel paths and grass, and boys couldn’t bring in companions who weren’t also residents.

The gorgeous Scot is too sexy for his own good and gets Joss's body humming for the first time since she moved to Edinburgh, but she's determined to simply forget him. Examples of this include: setting your privacy preferences, logging in to your Savills account, or filling in forms. Her solitary life is working well——until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. With each new day comes a new adventure, from wedding crashing at the five-star boardwalk hotel to pretending they are two strangers having a chance encounter at the boardwalk bar.Braden has experienced some loss in his own life and has also had his heart stomped on, so he doesn't trust easily. Now happily settled with the woman he’s pined after for years, he’s about to find out what their ten year courtship was like for her, through the journals she kept during their ups and many downs. She finds out that Braden and Ellie have the same dad, Douglas Carmichael, who never asked after them and died, and that Braden views Ellie's family more as family than his own mother and that he had to mature at a very young age. The windows were tall and wide, so tons of light from the busy street outside spilled into the lovely room.

But moving to Edinburgh has given her a new start, and, after she develops a crush on a sexy postgrad, she decides it’s time to push past her fears and go after what she wants.

I understood why she locked her heart and emotions up tight in her "iron box" as a kind of survival mechanism, and I know that everyone deals with grief differently.