Lake Cottage Hideaway: A Clean Small Town Romance

He was never mine to love. Now he’s the one man I can’t turn away.

Nikolas is the last person I ever expected to see in my cottage.
Still impossibly handsome.
He’s also the last person I should say yes to.

Because he’s a prince, an old crush and my brother’s best friend.
And I’m just the town nobody.

We haven’t seen each other since college.
Now he’s in hiding, hunted, and asking me for a place to disappear.

I let him in and everything changes.

At first, he’s cold and distant.

But then we share morning walks and boat rides on the lake.

I fall for him in a hundred quiet ways.
In the silences, in the glances, in the moments that feel like more than friendship.

But loving him doesn’t change the truth.

He has a crown to reclaim.
A country to save.

And if he chooses me… he loses it all.

A heartfelt story of hidden royalty, second chances, and a love that dares to rewrite the ending.