Piper Vance has a five-year plan, a color-coded calendar, and zero interest in the man who keeps wrecking both.
She's tried to avoid him. She really has. But Jonah Reyes keeps landing in her path like the universe has a sense of humor: the farmers market, her best friend's engagement party, and now the historic hall he's restoring for her best friend's wedding, where Piper is stuck coordinating every vendor meeting for the next eight months.
Piper doesn't believe in fate. She believes in spreadsheets, five-year plans, and staying two steps ahead of anything that could blindside her again. But every time Jonah shows up, he makes her laugh when she's trying very hard to stay annoyed, and slowly, infuriatingly, he starts to feel less like a coincidence and more like a habit she doesn't want to break.
Jonah isn't looking for anything permanent either. He restores old buildings for a living and keeps everything else deliberately unfinished, ever since watching his own parents' marriage collapse under the weight of a plan just like Piper's. But something about the woman who won't let anyone else write in her planner makes him want to stick around long enough to matter.
Then Piper's ex-fiancé comes back to town with a reconciliation that looks sensible on paper, and everyone in her life, her mother, her boss, her own carefully built plan, seems to agree he's the correct choice. Piper has to decide whether to keep choosing the life that looks right, or finally choose the one that feels true, before her own fear of the unpredictable costs her the best thing that's ever accidentally, deliberately happened to her.
Falling for the Man I Keep Avoiding is a grumpy sunshine, opposites-attract, slow-burn contemporary romance with plenty of banter, a swoony closed-door romance, and a happily ever after you'll be rooting for from the very first chapter.
