She never stays. He never lets anyone in. The inn has other plans.

Travel physical therapist June Root takes a three-month winter contract in tiny Green Arbor, Michigan, for one reason: it ends. Then she meets her new patient - Tom Carter, a wounded former Marine who has already driven off two therapists and would very much like to make it three.

June knows hands. She rebuilds them for a living. But as snowy PT sessions in Tom's cabin thaw into something neither of them ordered, June's countdown to her next city starts to feel less like freedom and more like running. And Tom, who learned the hard way what trusting people costs, is hiding more than a bad attitude.

A cozy, closed-door, maple-sweet romance about broken hands, buried secrets, and learning that some jobs you can't do with one pair of hands.