Rosie Harper is great at a lot of things. Saying no is not one of them.

As the owner of Once Upon an Inn, a struggling princess-themed inn in the charming town of Autumn Ridge, Vermont, Rosie has said yes to everything—the expensive renovations, the town’s fall festival, and the massive balloon payment coming due, whether the rooms are finished or not.

Then Dean Alden arrives with a rolling suitcase, a month-long reservation, and absolutely no patience for inefficiency.

A business consultant by trade, Dean is only in Autumn Ridge long enough to settle his grandparents’ abandoned apple orchard estate and head back to his real life. Staying was never part of the plan. But somewhere between fixing Rosie’s curtain rods, getting pulled into town chaos, and watching her bend over backward for everyone around her, Dean starts to see the woman underneath it all—the one who’s spent so long making everyone else happy that she’s forgotten how to ask herself what she wants.

Because wanting things has never come easy for Rosie Harper.

And Dean Alden was never supposed to feel like home.