Alice Winslow is thirty-one, raising four-year-old twins alone, and barely keeping her small-town flower shop alive. Every choice she makes is built around survival. There is no space left for risk. And certainly not for love.
Johnny Calloway arrives in Tunbridge carrying a past he never talks about and scars he can’t forget. As a firefighter, he knows exactly what loss looks like. Staying has only ever made it worse.
When their lives collide, neither of them is searching for something more. But Johnny becomes a steady presence in Alice’s fragile world, protecting what matters to her, showing up when no one else ever has, and quietly offering a kind of safety she has stopped believing she deserves.
For Alice, faith has become something fragile, shaped by disappointment and long, unanswered prayers. For Johnny, redemption feels like a word meant for better men than him.
As a close-knit town draws them into its rhythms of fall festivals, church suppers, and found family, the connection neither of them planned begins to feel dangerously real.
And when the past resurfaces and threatens to tear apart the life Alice has fought to build, she and Johnny must decide what they are willing to risk.
Because walking away might protect their hearts.
But staying could finally give them the family they never thought they would find.
Genre: Romance
Johnny Calloway arrives in Tunbridge carrying a past he never talks about and scars he can’t forget. As a firefighter, he knows exactly what loss looks like. Staying has only ever made it worse.
When their lives collide, neither of them is searching for something more. But Johnny becomes a steady presence in Alice’s fragile world, protecting what matters to her, showing up when no one else ever has, and quietly offering a kind of safety she has stopped believing she deserves.
For Alice, faith has become something fragile, shaped by disappointment and long, unanswered prayers. For Johnny, redemption feels like a word meant for better men than him.
As a close-knit town draws them into its rhythms of fall festivals, church suppers, and found family, the connection neither of them planned begins to feel dangerously real.
And when the past resurfaces and threatens to tear apart the life Alice has fought to build, she and Johnny must decide what they are willing to risk.
Because walking away might protect their hearts.
But staying could finally give them the family they never thought they would find.
Genre: Romance
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