What Could Be Better?
(2026)(The fifth book in the Heart of Nashville series)
A novel by Carrie Padgett
She loves the past. He’s all about building the future.
Shelby Yates loves all things vintage. The dustier and more broken, the better. She’s grieving the recent loss of her beloved grandmother and is working to restore and revive Gram’s resale store in East Nashville to honor Margot Hale’s legacy as an important jewelry designer, one of the first women artisans to embrace global influences in the 1970s. If Shelby had an ounce of Gram’s talent and confidence, she’d do more than restore old things. She’d create something new.
When her landlord arrives with an eviction notice, she fights back with every tool in her box and every item in her dusty store.
Tyler Brooks set down his fiddle and left life on the road to work with his father in the family property development business and to help his cousin, single mom, Dotty. He’s not looking forward to things like raising rents and serving eviction notices, but he’s been falsely accused of other things he wasn’t responsible for and lived through it, so he can handle this job, too. What he didn’t expect was the tenant wearing the flowing skirt in the crumbling brick building with the faulty electrical wiring to not only refuse to move out, but to claim she has a ninety-nine year lease.
Is he doomed to fail at his first assignment before it even starts?
Enemies to friends to more
Genre: Inspirational
Shelby Yates loves all things vintage. The dustier and more broken, the better. She’s grieving the recent loss of her beloved grandmother and is working to restore and revive Gram’s resale store in East Nashville to honor Margot Hale’s legacy as an important jewelry designer, one of the first women artisans to embrace global influences in the 1970s. If Shelby had an ounce of Gram’s talent and confidence, she’d do more than restore old things. She’d create something new.
When her landlord arrives with an eviction notice, she fights back with every tool in her box and every item in her dusty store.
Tyler Brooks set down his fiddle and left life on the road to work with his father in the family property development business and to help his cousin, single mom, Dotty. He’s not looking forward to things like raising rents and serving eviction notices, but he’s been falsely accused of other things he wasn’t responsible for and lived through it, so he can handle this job, too. What he didn’t expect was the tenant wearing the flowing skirt in the crumbling brick building with the faulty electrical wiring to not only refuse to move out, but to claim she has a ninety-nine year lease.
Is he doomed to fail at his first assignment before it even starts?
Enemies to friends to more
Genre: Inspirational