Fixing to Stay — Marilynne Rudick

This place was either purgatory...

Or heaven on earth. Laura Barclay just didn't know about Prairie, Illinois. While she tried valiantly to drag the local hardware store into the twentieth century, her laid-back boss kept jamming the wheels of progress.

Chris Johnson liked his business, his town and his women family-style, cozy, easygoing. And Laura was none of the above. Then again...all the ladies in Prairie couldn't be wrong about him. Just maybe he was the sexiest bachelor anywhere...