A Home Built in the Sunlight
(2026)(The second book in the Where Love Leads series)
A novel by Rebecca Catherine
They escaped the town that tried to tear them apart.
Now they have to survive the future they're building together.
At eighteen, Kennedy Briggs has spent her entire life fighting for a chance at something better. Leaving Clayborn with Eli Mercer was supposed to be the beginning of that better life—a fresh start far from gossip, judgment, and the people who never believed she could become more.
For the first time, she has everything she's ever wanted:
A college acceptance letter.
A tiny apartment filled with hope.
And the one man who has always made her feel safe.
But sharing a home with Eli is harder than Kennedy ever imagined.
Every morning starts with coffee across a cramped kitchen table. Every night ends with him sleeping only a few feet away. The quiet moments that once felt comforting are becoming impossible to ignore—and so is the growing certainty that she's fallen completely in love with him.
The problem?
Eli refuses to let himself believe they can have a future.
At thirty-one, the former Army mechanic knows exactly how the world sees them. Kennedy deserves college, opportunity, and a life bigger than anything he can offer. No matter how much he wants her, no matter how much it hurts, he's determined not to become the reason she gives up her dreams.
But the closer they grow, the harder it becomes to keep their distance.
When money grows tight, old fears resurface, and the fragile life they've built begins to feel dangerously easy to lose, Kennedy and Eli must decide whether protecting each other means holding on... or finally taking the risk of wanting more.
A Home Built in the Sunlight is a clean, emotional slow-burn age-gap romance filled with forced proximity, tender tension, found family, healing, and a hero willing to sacrifice everything for the woman he loves.
Genre: Romance
Now they have to survive the future they're building together.
At eighteen, Kennedy Briggs has spent her entire life fighting for a chance at something better. Leaving Clayborn with Eli Mercer was supposed to be the beginning of that better life—a fresh start far from gossip, judgment, and the people who never believed she could become more.
For the first time, she has everything she's ever wanted:
A college acceptance letter.
A tiny apartment filled with hope.
And the one man who has always made her feel safe.
But sharing a home with Eli is harder than Kennedy ever imagined.
Every morning starts with coffee across a cramped kitchen table. Every night ends with him sleeping only a few feet away. The quiet moments that once felt comforting are becoming impossible to ignore—and so is the growing certainty that she's fallen completely in love with him.
The problem?
Eli refuses to let himself believe they can have a future.
At thirty-one, the former Army mechanic knows exactly how the world sees them. Kennedy deserves college, opportunity, and a life bigger than anything he can offer. No matter how much he wants her, no matter how much it hurts, he's determined not to become the reason she gives up her dreams.
But the closer they grow, the harder it becomes to keep their distance.
When money grows tight, old fears resurface, and the fragile life they've built begins to feel dangerously easy to lose, Kennedy and Eli must decide whether protecting each other means holding on... or finally taking the risk of wanting more.
A Home Built in the Sunlight is a clean, emotional slow-burn age-gap romance filled with forced proximity, tender tension, found family, healing, and a hero willing to sacrifice everything for the woman he loves.
Genre: Romance
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