They built the wall between them. Now it's coming down one construction mishap, baseball game, and coffee-fueled fight at a time. Gilbert Kyle Jameson broke my heart eight years ago and never looked back. Now he's flexing his construction muscles right next door to my family's caf?, and every hammer strike on the other side of that wall feels personal. I've spent eight years building a life and a business that doesn't need him in it. I don't care how good he looks swinging a sledgehammer. I don't care that he still remembers exactly how I take my coffee. And I definitely don't care that some stubborn, hopeful part of me still lights up every time he walks through my door. I do not care. I'm just very loud about not caring. Kyle I panicked once. I let Gilbert Meyers go because I wasn't ready to be seen, and I've regretted it every day since. Now I'm building the shop next to his caf?, catching hell from him at every turn, facing him down on the baseball diamond, and losing my mind a little more every time he glares at me like he wants to kill me. Or maybe he wants to kiss me. I came back into his life to finish a project. I didn't expect to find out I still have unfinished business with the one guy I never stopped wanting. This time, I'm done hiding. The only question is whether Gilbert will let me back in. Built to Last is a steamy, low-angst MM contemporary romance full of second chances, enemies to lovers tension, and small-town charm. Fans of grumpy/sunshine pairings, forced proximity romance, community baseball, coming out later in life stories, and coffee shop romance will fall for Gilbert and Kyle's slow-burn journey from rivals to true love.
