The Way Back to Willow Creek

She came home to fix a roof. She didn't expect to fall for the man who built it.

After her marriage ends without warning, Nora Hale leaves her polished city life behind and returns to Willow Creek to help her aunt run the family hardware store. She isn't looking for anything except quiet and a little time to heal.

Then Jonah Reyes walks through the door with a toolbox and the same steady eyes she remembers from twenty years ago -- the boy she once promised forever to, before life pulled them in different directions.

What's inside:

- A slow-burn, small-town second chance romance with real emotional stakes

- A found-family cast: a scrappy aunt, a loyal best friend, and a sharp-tongued ten-year-old who steals every scene

- A closed-door romance -- warm, wholesome, and safe for every kind of reader

- A satisfying happily-ever-after with an epilogue

Perfect for readers of small-town second-chance romance who love a hometown hero, a found-family cast, and a slow burn that pays off. Curl up with this one on a porch swing, a rainy afternoon, or anywhere you need to believe in second chances.

Eleven months ago, if you had told her she'd be back in Willow Creek, unpacking her life into two suitcases and a U-Haul, she would have laughed you out of the room. She had a house in Charlotte with a soaking tub and a walk-in closet organized by color. She had a husband. She had, she'd believed, a life that looked exactly the way a life was supposed to look once you did everything right. Then Ethan had sat her down at their kitchen island- the one with the waterfall quartz he'd insisted on, the one that cost more than her college tuition-and told her he didn't think he loved her anymore. Not in a cruel way. In a reasonable way, an apologetic way, the way you'd tell someone their flight had been cancelled. Circumstances beyond anyone's control.