Rough Trouble — Keri Ford

Carla Wilkin knows that Happily Ever After isn't in the cards for her. She's okay with that, even if she's surrounded by friends who have found theirs. She loves her job and the people in Apple Trail. Carla's happy, and she's satisfied.

Until Tom walks in.

Watching his baby sister get married was a gut-punch Tom Lange never saw coming. Now he's forty-three, with no wife, no kids and the realization that life has gotten away from him. When work sends him hundreds of miles away to Apple Trail, Arkansas, he decides to start the Happily Ever After search as soon as he returns home.

Until he meets Carla.

Now he's wondering if his search is over before it ever began. And she's thinking that maybe he's her ace in the hole. But long distance relationships don't ever work. And being together means one of them has to sacrifice their home, job and friends. Doesn't it?