Alyssa Harwood’s Gran is about to get married, whether the rest of the family approves or not. Alyssa finds herself at Gran’s bed and breakfast in the small town of Cockleshell Bay to help with the wedding preparations. When everyone arrives a few days before the wedding, the two families meet for dinner to get to know each other. An unfortunate incident leads to Alyssa taking an instant dislike to Ryan Thurstan, grandson of the groom, and it seems the feeling is mutual. It’s just a shame he’s so good-looking. Alyssa has never met such an irritating yet impossibly attractive man. Concerns for the family wealth lead Alyssa and Ryan into compromising situations and an uneasy truce develops when they catch each other out. But when Ryan becomes a suspect in a murder, Alyssa realizes she has to make a choice. Will she play it safe and allow Ryan to get himself out of trouble, or will she expose her own humiliating incident to help him? And even if she does, will he appreciate it? Or will he steal her heart instead? This small-town clean beach romance novella can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed as part of the series. It is a guaranteed HEA with no cliffhangers. It is #1 in the Cockleshell Bay series.