I loved Charlie in his brother Jack’s book ( Better Than People) but being able to see inside his head here? Heartbreakingly beautiful. Rye and Charlie are absolutely amazing together. You guys–this series! It takes me apart in the absolute best ways! Is this what it feels like to have a home-and someone to share it with? And the more time he spends with Charlie, the more he can see himself falling asleep in Charlie’s arms…and waking up in them. But the longer he stays in Garnet Run, the more he can see himself belonging there. He isn’t used to people wanting to put things back together-not the crumbling house he just inherited, not his future and certainly not him.

Rye Janssen has spent his life breaking things. When the man comes in for the fifth time in a week, Charlie can’t resist intervening. When a stranger with epic tattoos and a glare to match starts coming into Matheson’s Hardware, buying things seemingly at random and lugging them off in a car so beat-up Charlie feels bad for it, his instinct is to help.

He took care of the cat he found in the woods…so now he has a cat. He took care of his father’s hardware store, building it into something known several towns over. When his parents died two days before his eighteenth birthday, he took care of his younger brother, even though that meant putting his own dreams on hold. And the more time he spends with Charlie, the more he can see himself falling asleep in Charlie’s arms…and waking up in them.A man who’s been moving his whole life finally finds a reason to stay put.Ĭharlie Matheson has spent his life taking care of things. A man who’s been moving his whole life finally finds a reason to stay put.Ĭharlie Matheson has spent his life taking care of things.

Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish