title: Tesoro
author: Lynch, Jessica
description: For the first time in years, Maria De Angelis is in a really good place. She has her beloved bed and breakfast, her treasured relationship with Sheriff Sylvester Collins, and her brother's overprotective nature is much easier to tolerate when he lives a few hours away. And if she's a little disappointed that everyone is getting married around her, at least she does have her Sly. Her life is perfetto. Perfect. Until she shows up. Véronique Richard. The gorgeous outsider came all the way to stay as a guest of Ophelia. Maria is too excited to think much of the strange request she receives by letter. With the exception of Rick and Grace's stay in her honeymoon suite, Maria hasn't hosted a guest in months. Hoping that, with the springtime and Hamlet opening up again, this is the beginning of a full Ophelia, she throws herself into pleasing the outsider since the woman is a stranger to the small town. Well. Not completely. Because Sly?  He already knows Véronique—and, Maria discovers to her dismay, he knows her very, very well. *Tesoro is a novella (~25,000 words) set a few months after Here Comes the Bride. Because there can never be an outsider that doesn't bring trouble with them, this story features Maria, Sylvester, and a woman who will do anything to come between them.