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Keeney Builds #1

Everyone in town loves the handsome handyman. 

Everyone except his new neighbor. 

Out of jail and desperate for work, Vincent scrapes by with odd jobs. He's hired to help the gray-haired lady move in next door but stumbles when he finds nothing old or feeble about Hilary. 

Rejected by her husband after her body rejected implants, the breast cancer survivor shuts out Vincent until a kitchen appliance crisis forces her to accept his help. Convinced that he could do better, she keeps the younger man at a distance, but he persists, building her confidence and coaxing her out of her colorless cocoon. 

With the hot handyman by her side and in her bed, Hilary develops a community program bringing at-risk youth into the building trades. But not everyone wants to see the ex-con succeed. An old foe is determined to derail Vincent, and Hilary is caught in the chaos. 

She’s ready to retreat. 

Ready to leave everything—including Vincent—behind. 

Can he convince her to stay?

#HotAndHandy is a small-town, reverse age-gap romance between two people starting over after being kicked to the curb by life and love.

Keeney Builds #2

He made good on his promise to call. She refused to answer. 

Facing an embarrassing divorce and fighting against her controlling mother, Fiona doesn’t have time for the broody ex-con, despite toe-curling kisses that still star in her dreams. 

Surprise doesn’t begin to describe her reaction when he appears in her company’s boardroom months later. And ignores her.

Tomas tells himself he’s no longer interested in the tightly wound executive. But he can’t stop wondering if she’s all right. Can’t stop wanting to pick up the pieces. Can’t stop thinking about how perfect she felt in his arms. 

Defying her mother, Fiona gives Tomas a chance, and they connect over their shared dream of building affordable housing. The community rallies around them, but not everyone is on board, and roadblocks are thrown up to challenge their plan and their relationship. 

Can they build something solid despite threats to their foundation? Is permanent even possible when family differences turn ugly?  

Perfectly Polished is a small-town, opposites-attract romance between a burly builder who grunts more than he speaks and a polished professional who has never known love. 

Keeney Builds #3

Small town. Big dreams. One renovation that changes everything.

After three years of climbing the corporate ladder, Carl can practically taste the corner office with his name on the door. However, caring for his injured grandmother takes precedence, forcing his return to Keeney. But not to stay. Career-wise, the small town is a dead end, and others have their eye on that corner office.

Trading boardroom strategy for work boots and hard hats, Carl rejoins Keeney Building Supply to work as a general contractor—temporarily. He’s made that clear to everyone, including Sylvie.

Years ago, they parted ways before their mutual attraction could ignite, and Sylvie moved on, partnering with a charming developer who shared her excitement for flipping houses. However, charm can be deceiving—the developer wanted only her money, not her heart, leaving her plans in ruins. 

Carl steps in, offering friendship, ice cream, and a new opportunity for her own home renovation business. Sylvie’s spark returns, and their attraction kindles, but Carl keeps his distance. 

With his grandmother well on her way to recovery, there’s nothing to keep him in the small town. His future is waiting, and it’s not in Keeney.

Or is it? 

A workplace romance, Fabulously Flawed is a story of the messy beauty of falling for someone who challenges everything you thought you wanted: a would-be house flipper who clashes and connects with the driven project manager determined to escape the confines of small-town life. 

Keeney Builds #4

She’s fighting to keep her past in the past.

He’s fighting a father who refuses to retire. 

After one disastrous decision destroyed her career and shattered her confidence, Ingrid is determined to build a quieter life. She lives in the cutest tiny house, has a great job, and Iris, the sweet landlady who treats Ingrid better than her mother. 

Mickey has spent years waiting to inherit the family business, but his father has done nothing more than talk about it. Learning about the community Christmas pageant from Ingrid, his pretty, prickly neighbor, Mickey volunteers his father. Hopefully that will get his dad off his back, and maybe ignite the spark that seems to be kindling between his dad and Iris, their landlady. 

But Mickey’s dad can’t keep his mouth shut. He offends Iris with his mansplaining and refuses to accept that Mickey knows what he’s doing. Now Mickey wonders whether running Rossi & Rossi was ever really his dream.

What he does know is that he wants more time with Ingrid, who pulls away, not wanting to reveal the colossal mistake still haunting her. Yet when the pageant is in peril, she accepts Mickey’s unwavering support and attention.

Thrown together by a shared backyard and a beloved community event, Mickey and Ingrid bond as they fan the flames between the older couple. But when a major corporation takes aim at Keeney Building Supply, both budding relationships falter and the happiest time of the year turns into a merry mess. 

A Merry Mess is a small-town, friends-to-lovers, holiday romance between a lonely woman eager for a fresh start and a restless man unsure of his future.