{"product_id":"the-unpolished-life-of-eleanor-whitfield","title":"The Unpolished Life of Eleanor Whitfield","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleanor Whitfield teaches people which fork to use for a living. So naturally, she just inherited a honky-tonk bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleanor'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe shows up in a pencil skirt and her mother's pearls. They serve her Chardonnay from a box. In a mason jar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * Fish out of water — etiquette expert meets honky-tonk chaos\u003cbr\u003e * Opposites attract — her pearls, his tattoos\u003cbr\u003e * Inheritance with strings attached\u003cbr\u003e * Grumpy heroine \/ sunshine hero (yes, reversed)\u003cbr\u003e * Found family in a small Southern town\u003cbr\u003e * Ex-military hero with a heart of gold\u003cbr\u003e * Forced proximity — she lives above the bar\u003cbr\u003e * Meddling from beyond the grave\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeat Level: Just Kisses Tone: Funny, Heartfelt \u0026amp; Emotional Standalone HEA Guaranteed Clean romance, no explicit content\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secret Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53119874269481,"sku":"9781967529018","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/0153\/9369\/files\/9781967529018.jpg?v=1778087413","url":"https:\/\/www.secretgardenbook.com\/products\/the-unpolished-life-of-eleanor-whitfield","provider":"Secret Garden","version":"1.0","type":"link"}