Backup Plan

New York Timesbestselling authorJill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a heartwarming tale of three people who are brought together when theyre bequeathed an old Wild West inn that has the potential to pull their lives apart, but instead turns into the gift of a lifetime.When Alice receives a call about an unexpected windfall, shes stunned to learn the gift is a falling-apart-at-the-seams old Wild West BB she once considered homeand shes inherited it along with two strangers.Except they werent always strangers. Once upon a time, they were friends. One is her ex-BFF Lauren. The other is Knox, the only guy to ever break her heart, all while never even knowing she existed.It turns out their lives are unknowingly entangled because they once separately helped the same woman without expecting anything in return. Years later, Alice, Lauren, and Knox are broken in their own way, with their own historyand secrets causing them to start out on the wrong foot with each other. But according to the will, they must renovate and be partners in the inn for one year or else lose their inheritance.Stuck together, they make a list of rules to keep the peacerules that end up doing the opposite, but by some miracle they find what they didnt even know they were looking foracceptance, true friendship, and in a case (or two!), true love.