Coming Home to Aldervane

He built a wall after losing his wife. She swore she'd never think about him again. Neither expected a beer delivery to undo both lies before the leaves finished turning.

Evie Hart came home to Aldervane to save her grandmother's failing bakery, just for a few weeks, she tells herself, until the ovens are running again and she can get back to the life she built somewhere else. She doesn't expect the town's harvest festival to pair her with Wyatt Sinclair, the brewery owner she left ten years of unfinished business with, or his six-year-old daughter, who decides within one afternoon that Evie belongs in their family.

Then one Tuesday delivery turns into something neither of them can explain away as business anymore.

What Evie hasn't told him is that she's already made a choice that could give her the whole life she never let herself want, or cost her everything, and she has no idea how to say it out loud before it's too late.

Wyatt has spent two years building a life around never needing anyone that much again. Every Tuesday with Evie cracks that wall a little further, until an overheard rumor convinces him she's already halfway out the door, and he has to decide whether protecting his heart is worth losing the first thing that has felt like home since he lost his wife.

She came back to save a bakery. She never expected this town to hand her back the woman she thought she'd lost for good.

When the whole town gathers for the festival's closing night, one hand-lettered bottle and one impossible question are about to decide everything: whether Evie is finally staying for good, or walking away from Aldervane a second time.

A deeply emotional small-town romance about grief, courage, and the risk of wanting something enough to stay.

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