You Auto Be Mine: A Holliday Home Fourth of July Romance

She had a seven-year escape plan — and it definitely didn’t include falling for the mechanic who’s holding her car hostage.

Sloane Griffiths has spent her entire life under her father’s thumb, smiling on cue and building a secret cash fund one careful deposit at a time. She’s finally making her move — driving a flawless ’57 Chevy Bel Air to a Lake Tahoe car show to prove she can manage the family collection on her own terms. Then the engine overheats in a town that isn’t on her GPS, her credit cards get cut off by a controlling father who doesn’t bluff, and she’s stranded in Holliday Home with a hundred dollars in cash and a Freedom Fund locked in a bank an hour away.

So much for the exit strategy.

Wyatt Brooks fixes things. Cars, plumbing, the wobbly stool at Muldoon’s — if it’s broken and it belongs to Holliday Home, he’ll get to it. The one thing he doesn’t fix is sharp-tongued heiresses in silk blouses who show up demanding miracles and then reorganize his entire filing system while they wait. But Sloane won’t stop answering his phone, won’t stop making his grandfather laugh…and won’t stop looking at him like she’s trying very hard not to notice the width of his hands. And the way she can gap a spark plug on the very first try isn’t helping his resolve to keep this professional.

Between a mechanic’s lien that’s either legal genius or a very expensive bluff, a father who fights with lawyers instead of fists, and a Fourth of July parade that puts everything on the line, Sloane is running out of reasons to leave — and running out of defenses against a man who protects people simply because it’s who he is. But choosing Wyatt means choosing to stay…and staying is the one thing her father never taught Sloane how to do.

Note to readers: All the books in the Holliday Home series are standalone romances with no cliffhangers.