The Damaged Hearts Bargain by Sienna Waters

How do you love when you’ve never been loved?
Lucy Evans should be happy. After a rough upbringing, she’s finally found a home in tiny Tetherington. But now she’s watching all her friends pair off and finding herself more and more on the shelf. Until a shoplifting arrest goes wrong.
If there’s one place Cal Roberts definitely doesn’t want to be, it’s Tetherington. But when her estranged mother passes, she has no choice but to head down and prepare the house to be sold. In and out, that’s the plan. Until a dark haired beauty rugby-tackles her in broad daylight.
Cal has a rule: no more than six weeks in any place or with any woman. Lucy has a plan: get a girlfriend by the end of the summer. This is never going to work. Until Cal’s past comes back to haunt her and Lucy turns out to be a savior in disguise.
Gossip is ripe in Tetherington, and not in a good way. But Lucy is sure she can clear Cal’s name even if Cal isn’t sure she wants it clearing. And if something grows between them along the way, well… stranger things have happened in the little town by the sea.