The Covered Bridge at Willow Creek
A Sweet Small-Town Romance

About this book:

When state engineer Nora Beck arrives in Willow Creek to oversee the restoration of an 1874 covered bridge, she expects spreadsheets, grant compliance, and a quick exit. She doesn't expect Caleb Stone—six feet of flannel-clad stubbornness, a master timber framer who measures wood by feel and speaks in the language of spruce and stone. He thinks her calculations ignore the soul of the bridge; she thinks his methods belong in a museum. Both are right. And both are in trouble.

As autumn paints the Green Mountains in fire and gold, the battle over the bridge becomes a daily duel of laser levels versus broadaxes, federal codes versus generational knowledge. But with every shared sunrise on the scaffold, every coffee thermos passed between frozen fingers, the line between professional rivalry and something far more dangerous begins to blur. The bridge isn't the only thing being held together by tension rods and hope.

In a town where everyone knows your business before you do, where the selectboard meets over pie and the creek remembers every hand that shaped its crossing, Nora and Caleb must decide what they're willing to preserve—and what they're brave enough to build. *The Covered Bridge at Willow Creek* is a slow-burn, small-town romance steeped in the scent of cedar and the weight of history, where love is the strongest joinery of all.