<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Loving you was like being struck by lightning. But lightning can strike twice.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Those words were the only thing besides her daughter that Quinn Reynolds had left after her husband died. Three years later she's still trying to find herself again aching to return to the kitchen as a pastry chef.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a chef position opens at a local bar she finally steps back into the kitchen and into the orbit of Noah Sullivan-her late husband's grumpy emotionally unavailable best friend. He's made it clear he doesn't do love marriage or kids. She's not looking for anything either. But when sparks fly between them every time they touch Quinn proposes something simple: no strings just comfort.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But nothing stays simple in a small town like Brockhurst. As the days turn into nights and walls begin to fall Quinn finds herself sharing her grief while Noah wrestles with the guilt and loyalty he's carried for years.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now caught between honoring the past and risking their hearts they must decide if they're brave enough to weather the storm together.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because sometimes lightning really does strike twice. </span></p>