<p><strong>One week one irresistible mistake and two people forced to choose between safe independence and a love that refuses to be anonymous.</strong></p><p>Victoria Lathrop built a life by the numbers: a thriving social-media firm a spotless apartment and a fierce independence she's never regretted until a week in the Berkshires reawakens the artist she buried ten years ago. Drawn to the Faraway Inn for a curated chance to make and to breathe she expects nothing more than paint-splattered amusement and the occasional awkward charcoal sketch.</p><p>Aaron Price is a man trying to live smaller than his past. Once a world-famous guitarist he's traded arenas for quiet helping his daughter scope out a cozy inn she might turn into a future. When he walks into Victoria's week-warm witty and deliberately unnamed-their chemistry is instant and complicated.</p><p>He's everything her mother warned her against; he's also the missing piece she didn't know she was searching for.</p><p>As a week of art classes late-night conversation and reckless sex accelerates into something tender and true both must confront the question neither expected: can two people with very different pasts build something lasting or will truth and fear send them back to the lives they thought they wanted?</p><p> </p>