The Unpolished Life of Eleanor Whitfield

Eleanor Whitfield teaches people which fork to use for a living. So naturally, she just inherited a honky-tonk bar.Eleanor’s etiquette studio in Atlanta is dying - six students, a stack of unpaid bills, and a legacy from her perfectionist mother that she can’t afford to keep and can’t bear to let go. Then a small-town lawyer calls with news that changes everything: her estranged great-aunt Mavis has left Eleanor her entire estate.The catch? It’s a bar called The Rusty Spur in a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 1,847 people. It has a disco ball, a mechanical bull, and peanut shells on the floor. And Eleanor has to live there for six months or lose it all.She shows up in a pencil skirt and her mother’s pearls. They serve her Chardonnay from a box. In a mason jar.The staff includes a poetry-reading bouncer the size of a barn door, a waitress who’s been there thirty years, and a bartender who performs on Friday nights in a vintage Dolly Parton t-shirt. And then there’s Wyatt Rivers - the blue-eyed, broad-shouldered bar manager who loved Mavis like family and isn’t sure Eleanor deserves any of this.He might be right. She doesn’t know how to pull a draft beer, she’s never line danced, and she once corrected a customer’s handshake technique in the middle of a Saturday night shift. But Mavis left her a letter that said something Eleanor can’t stop thinking about: 'A place to be graceless and still be loved.'When a developer comes after the bar with a multimillion-dollar offer, Eleanor has to decide what matters more - the safe, polished life she was raised to want, or the messy, loud, completely real one she’s only just beginning to build.✓ Fish out of water - etiquette expert meets honky-tonk chaos ✓ Opposites attract - her pearls, his tattoos ✓ Inheritance with strings attached ✓ Grumpy heroine / sunshine hero (yes, reversed)✓ Found family in a small Southern town ✓ Ex-military hero with a heart of gold ✓ Forced proximity - she lives above the bar ✓ Meddling from beyond the graveHeat Level: Just Kisses | Tone: Funny, Heartfelt & Emotional | Standalone | HEA Guaranteed | Clean romance, no explicit contentPerfect for readers who love Denise Hunter, Sherryl Woods, and heroines who discover that the most unpolished version of themselves was the best one all along.