Saved by the Sheriff

Marley Scanlon came home to empty her mother's house and leave again. Six weeks, one U-Haul, done. Then a drunk driver put her car in a ditch on County Road 9, and Sheriff Dean Kirby pulled her out. He's twelve years past the kid she used to babysit and one decade deep in a job that doesn't leave room for much else. What starts as a ride home becomes a night, and the night becomes a test with two pink lines. Dean's answer is a plan — a ring, a house, a form. Marley's answer is no. But he keeps showing up anyway, at the dump run and the doctor and her door at 2 a.m., and Marley starts to wonder whether the thing she's been running from was never him at all. A small-town romance about two people learning to meet in the middle.