{"product_id":"the-pact-sophia-nye-9798340544421","title":"The Pact: A Small-Town, Enemies-to-Lovers Forbidden Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA small-town baker mixes business with pleasure when she falls for her best friend's ex.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAva Lancaster wants one thing: to convince her best friends to move back to their hometown of Cedar Springs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuckily for Ava, the five girls made a pact their senior year of high school-if they all turned thirty without getting married, they would return to Cedar Springs, buy the abandoned Victorian manor on Main Street, and open a bed and breakfast together. And, because sometimes good things \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e happen to good people, the manor goes up for sale the same weekend Ava turns thirty. Everything is falling into place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween running her bakery without help, convincing two of the girls that friendship is worth the effort of a big move, and dealing with Benjamin McKinley the Traitor (who \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c\/i\u003e is the real estate agent selling the property), Ava starts to worry that her lifelong dream is crumbling around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen McKinley believes in putting the past behind him, a mentality that's served him well so far.\u003c\/b\u003e Unfortunately for Ben, past mistakes that he'd hoped were long gone rear their ugly heads in the form of Ava Lancaster and her friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid he break up with her best friend on prom night? Yes. Did he think it was a decision that would haunt him into adulthood? Absolutely not. Yet here he is, somehow struggling with the same problem he had fifteen years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNormally, he'd just put as much distance between himself and the women as possible. Normally, he'd continue stuffing his inconvenient crush on Ava back out of reach where it belonged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Ben is a realtor and the manor belonged to his grandmother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich means that Ben is about to spend a lot of time pretending he hasn't always been in love with Ava.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pact\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in a cozy, spicy, small-town contemporary romance series set in Cedar Springs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophia Nye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798340544421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d","brand":"Sophia Nye","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446809047295,"sku":"9798340544421","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3ff534db-34e5-48c1-b7a6-f197ea126024.jpg?v=1777226870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pact-sophia-nye-9798340544421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}