Welcome to Starkford, where the cocktails are strong and the chemistry's even stronger.

After catching her husband on tape with another woman, Dawson Everly ditches Nashville, and him, for Starkford, Mississippi. She's ready to rebuild. New town, new job, zero complications. But that plan goes straight to hell when she meets Patrick Butler: smoldering bartender, high-key womanizer, and, oh yeah . . . her landlord.

Patrick Butler has rules: no strings, no drama, no strings again. So of course, the sharp-tongued literature professor living in his guesthouse checks every box he should avoid. She's off-limits. She's off-kilter. And she might be the one woman who makes him want more than meaningless hookups and whiskey.

She's brilliant and guarded. He's broody and bad news. And when the heat between them starts to simmer, denying it might be the biggest pour choice of all.

Pour Choices is a laugh-out-loud, spicy small-town romance with a fierce heroine learning to begin again, a bartender who turns emotional unavailability into an art form, and enough twists to leave your heart shaken, not stirred.