Ellie Peat

Sloane Calder is excellent at two things:finding beautiful things. and leaving them behind. As a high-end buyer, she's spent years curating perfect lives for other people while keeping hers safely under control. A summer in Iron Creek is supposed to be a break-eight quiet weeks in a charming lakeside town she fully intends to forget the moment it's over. Wes Greer has already forgotten how summer romances end.
Mostly because they all end the same way. At fifty-two, the local craftsman has spent decades restoring furniture, fixing boats, and watching "temporary" people pass through town with very convincing reasons why they're definitely different. (They are not different.)Then Sloane walks into his workshop, critiques his joinery, and accidentally pockets his coffee cup. She's not different. He's not interested.
This is absolutely not happening. Except. it kind of is. Somewhere between farmers markets, long walks by the lake, and conversations that refuse to stay casual, Sloane finds herself doing something she hasn't done in fifteen years-wanting to keep what she's found. Which is a problem. Because her life is in Chicago. His is not going anywhere. And neither of them is young enough to pretend this doesn't matter.
Warm, funny, and quietly swoony, The One with the Cabinet is a closed-door, later-in-life romance about second chances, sharp instincts, and what happens when you stop walking away from the thing you actually want.