Bump in the Road

Maggie Pruitt came home to sell a house and leave. The pipe burst on day one. The plumber was Cal Bennett — the boy she left without a goodbye, now a widowed dad with grease on his knuckles and a daughter who thinks Maggie smells like cinnamon. One night, one bad decision, one test with two pink lines. Cal wants to build her something. Maggie has a flight number and a promotion waiting in the city. But the roof is leaking, the town is talking, and the man keeps showing up with soup. She spent eleven years learning how to leave Cypress Bend. Now she has to learn how to stay.