Hired to Fill a Chalk Line

Junie Spradlin came back to Galilee for nine days. She's staying for a season. Twenty years ago she left town with a duffel bag and a broken promise; now she's burying her aunt and selling the old house on Chalk Line Road. There's just one problem. The hardware store she thought she inherited is half-owned by Beau Kittridge — the boy who didn't leave with her, the man who stayed, the face she's spent two decades not forgiving. She's his boss on paper. He's the reason the store still has a roof. To sell, she has to bankrupt the town. To stay, she has to forgive it. And the letters in her aunt's ledger say Beau never stopped writing.