THE SHERIFF'S UNEXPECTED HOMECOMING.

Josie Callahan left Maple Hollow at twenty-two and swore she'd never look back. Ten years, one failed marriage, and one inherited apple orchard later, she's back — and so is everything she left behind, including the boy who once almost told her he loved her, and never got the chance. Sheriff Griffin Marsh doesn't do unpredictable. Not since his father's heart nearly gave out and taught him that a steady life is the only kind worth building. But Josie moves in next door with a dying cider press, a leaning fence, and six weeks to save her family's orchard before the town's beloved Harvest Festival — and before she loses the only home she has left. Somehow, being neighborly turns into something neither of them planned on. Between porch-swing conversations, a fence that needs mending, and a town that's already picked out their wedding song, Josie and Griffin will have to face the fears that kept them apart the first time — hers, that needing someone means losing them; his, that loving someone means the ground can give way again. One festival deadline. One overdue confession. One chance to finally get it right. A warm, small-town second-chance romance about grumpy sheriffs, sunshine teachers, and the kind of home worth staying for.