Description

Some returns are temporary. Others change everything.

Ava Hughes doesn't do small-town life anymore.

She's built a booming food brand in New York City-and she's not slowing down.

Until a clause in her estranged great-uncle's will forces her back to Danville Falls for one year... to revive a failing mini-mart she wants nothing to do with.

Coming home was never part of the plan.

Neither was Jim O'Connor.

Once her first love, now the CEO of a powerful gourmet grocery chain and her main competitor, Jim is everything Ava left behind-and everything she can't seem to escape. The chemistry is still there. So are the scars.

In a town that thrives on history, their past refuses to stay buried.

As sparks turn into something deeper, Ava and Jim are pulled into a second chance neither of them planned for, but neither can ignore.

There's just one problem.

They don't want the same future.

Ava won't sacrifice the life she's fought to build.

Jim won't leave the town he calls home.

And when love starts asking for more than either of them is willing to give, they're forced to face the one question they've never been able to answer:

Can love survive when two people want different lives?

Settle the Score is a heartfelt small-town romance about second chances, unfinished love, and the courage it takes to choose between the life you've built and the one that's been waiting for you all along.