Sweet Contradiction: A Sweet, Small Town Romance (Dent County Romance Book 1)

When Beth Michaels left Salem, Missouri, she swore she’d never look back. Her rules were simple:✔ Get out fast✔ Don’t come home✔ Never fall for a small-town boy with small-town valuesBut life has a way of pulling you back—especially when it delivers a heartbreaking call from your childhood best friend. Returning to her hometown to attend a funeral, Beth plans to keep her head down, heart guarded, and her mouth just barely polite.Until she meets Matthew Wright.He’s everything she’s spent a decade swearing off—clean-cut, well-liked, church-going. He’s too sweet, too genuine, and entirely too persistent. He also happens to be infuriatingly handsome and impossible to shake.Beth’s got a list of dating rules, and Matt breaks all of them. But sometimes, the biggest contradictions turn out to be the truest things of all.Now, if Matt can convince her to stop running from her past, she might just find a whole lot of sweet under all that stubborn.Sweet Contradiction is a swoony, heartfelt southern romance perfect for fans of:✅ Bad girls and good guys✅ Small-town second chances✅ Witty banter & southern sass✅ Prickly heroines with soft heartsCome back to Salem, where love is slow to build, hard to resist, and always worth the fight.