Bed & Breakfast & Benefits: A Steamy Sapphic Grumpy/Sunshine Romance

Claire Donnelly is a master of organization, arriving at her late aunt’s coastal bed and breakfast with a single mission: renovate the property, cash out, and escape her soul-crushing corporate life. She has a spreadsheet for every contingency, but she never accounted for Jax Monroe. Jax is the B&B’s local caretaker, a rugged, tool-belt-wearing butch who is as protective of the house as she is stubborn about everything else. To Jax, Claire is just another intrusive city girl with an impractical clipboard and a threat to the only home she has ever known. They are oil and water, clashing over every renovation detail while the air between them grows thick with mutual irritation and intense, unspoken friction. When a fierce storm traps them together, the hostilities crack wide open, shifting from heated arguments to a high-voltage, no-strings arrangement of physical intimacy. What starts as a convenient temporary escape soon blurs the lines of their professional relationship. As they strip away the layers of the old inn, Claire discovers that the life she thought she wanted doesn't hold a candle to the woman currently fueling her cravings. Faced with a looming deadline to sell, both women must decide if their "benefits" were just a distraction or the building blocks of a permanent home.