Where We Belong By N.S. Perkins

Lexie Tuffin has one goal in life: making it to the Olympics as a gymnast for Team USA. Her dream was almost crushed when she injured herself last year, but now she’s back with a vengeance. Except her old coach fired her, and she’s starting from scratch. The only gym that will have her is in Nowhere, Vermont.

Finn Olsen has spent his adult life traveling the world, never wanting to settle in one place until last year, when he had to come back to his dull hometown to take on a job managing a Christmas tree farm. And while he’s slowly fallen in love with the job, he still feels like something is missing from his life. How could he ever feel fulfilled in a place that still sees him as his wild teenage self?

After a catastrophic introduction and an even worse second meeting, Lexie wants nothing to do with Finn. The fact that she rents a cabin on his farm makes their interactions unavoidable, to Lexie’s great despair. However, the more they bump into each other, the clearer it becomes that the snarky flannel-wearing man might not be so bad after all. In fact, he might be the first person to really see her.

Her only focus should be on her training. He should not fall for anyone. But neither of them seems able to stop feelings from developing, and maybe in each other, they can find what they’ve been looking for all along: somewhere to belong.