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A guarded artist. A gentle teacher. In a town that mends broken pieces, love becomes the design.

With the Southern Charm’s restoration nearing completion, multi-media artist Wyatt McBride is crafting luminous metal-and-glass pieces to finish the job—and holding his world together for his newly warded teenage nephew, Collin. Grief for a lost friend still shadows his days, but Wyatt refuses to dim…until a brilliant, soft-spoken newcomer turns his careful routine into color.

 

Keegan Donaghue has come to Shore Breeze for a reset: high-school science teacher by day, part-time forensics consultant by night. He’s smart, kind, and quietly scarred—managing recovery, flashes of PTSD, and unsettling emails from an ex who won’t stay buried in the past. When a standout student links Keegan to the town’s resident artist, a tentative friendship sparks into something tender and brave.

 

As summer settles over the Charm, Wyatt and Keegan learn to trust what’s growing between them—through school projects and late-night studio sessions, a meddling found family, and dangers that refuse to stay in yesterday. To claim a future, they’ll have to outlast old wounds, face new threats, and believe that love can be designed to last.

 

 

 

Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes involving PTSD, as well as the discussion of, and flashbacks to, domestic violence and drug addiction. There is a scene of assault involving homophobic slurs, a scene of violence and attempted kidnap, as well as a very brief reference to rape.

Includes exclusive KU bonus scenes not in the original release.

 

First edition published at Pride Publishing, August 2016.

 

Additional Information

Format	ebook
Publisher	Entwined Publishing
Length	Novel, 287 pages/83377 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	16-December-2025
Price	$4.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.firstforromance.com/book/according-to-design-special-1