Some people fall in love slowly.
Brent Lawson doesn’t do anything slowly.
Not medicine.
Not loyalty.
And definitely not Brooke Dawson.
What starts as dog-sitting for an anxious corgi while its owner undergoes cancer treatment turns into late nights, impossible chemistry, and a man who looks at Brooke like she’s already part of his future.
That should terrify her.
And it does.
Because Brooke has spent her whole life fighting for stability. After ten years working at Boopity Snoots, she’s finally close to launching her dream business: Wiggle Butt Wash Co., a mobile grooming van she can call entirely her own.
Falling for Brent was never part of the plan.
Neither was him asking her to leave everything behind and move to Spokane with him.
Brent promises he would never ask her to give up her dreams for love.
Brooke isn’t sure she knows how to believe that.
So she lets him go.
Only to discover that losing Brent hurts a lot more than risking him ever could.
Built Beside You is a steamy contemporary romance featuring a devoted ER doctor, an independent dog groomer, emotional slow burn, forced proximity, found family, one deeply anxious corgi, and a love story about learning that the right person never asks you to become less.