Author Description

He's a grumpy lawyer who doesn't believe in love. She's the sunshine barista determined to prove him wrong. Love may not be legally binding-but his heart is already under contract. Family lawyer, Daniel Whitmore, has spent years untangling the messes of broken marriages, bitter custody battles, and love gone wrong. To him, relationships are a liability-contracts doomed to fail. Jaded and grumpy, he keeps his heart locked behind ironclad clauses, content with his long hours and quiet solitude. Then there's Ava Carter, the bright-eyed, warm-hearted barista who runs Grounds for Appeal, the tiny café nestled inside the courthouse. With her easy laughter, habit of slipping extra caramel into his coffee, and belief that love is the strongest argument of all, she's everything Daniel is not. Despite his best efforts to remain immune to her charm, Daniel finds himself drawn into Ava's world-her unwavering kindness toward even the most irate clients, and the way she sees love as something worth fighting for, not against. As he helps Ava with a legal dilemma of her own, Daniel is forced to confront the walls he's built around his heart. But when an unexpected case challenges both their beliefs about love, will he finally take a chance on the one argument he's always refused to make-his own?