A Bowl Lot of Love

What happens when your inheritance is a bowling alley in the small town you escaped from? And your last hope to deal with it is your (criminally hot) childhood frenemy?Noah (aka Noah the girl):Not even my four best friends, who’ve stuck by me through back-to-back funerals, can lessen my shock of what’s revealed at the reading of my grandparents’ will. They left me a bowling alley. That they apparently owned.Three strikes for me.The legal docs point me to a little bar in Derby, the tiny town I couldn’t escape fast enough after high school. Inside that bar is Simon Faust-the man who sold the rundown Derby Lanes to my grandfather for the astounding price of a single dollar.Simon owes me. Just like he owes me for stealing the academic scholarship I worked myself to the bone to win senior year. Grudges aren’t great, but I’m good at grudges. Simon is my proudest grudge.I need to offload this bowling alley and fast. My life is in Chicago with a boyfriend who, on paper at least, fits my dream. Stability, security, money. I’ve learned to rely on no one but myself.Simon:Noah bursts back into my life like the whirlwind she’s always been. Wild and fascinating. Part of me hoped this would happen. Okay, I definitely hoped this would happen. Noah is my longest and oldest crush.If only she would hear me out. I sold my tech start-up to create a foundation aimed at revitalizing the town that raised me. Small business grants for local entrepreneurs mean empty storefronts and vacant lots can come back to life. I owe it to my parents, whose business failed through no fault of their own.As a peace offering, I help Noah go through her grandparents’ house-dumpster rental on me. We uncover a box of letters her grandparents wrote to each other when they were dating, along with a cryptic note about treasure. A treasure hunt? I’m in.But something in Noah’s eyes lets on that her life in Chicago isn’t as perfect as it seems. She’s tough, but there’s a crack in that armor. Her faith in people is broken. Maybe I’m the one who can restore it.A Bowl Lot of Love is an enemies to lovers, small-town, sweet romantic comedy. This is the third book in a series about four friends who find their careers and love lives in need of a major reboot. This book can be read as a standalone.