The Mercy of Magnolias

Tilly Boone came home to sell her grandmother's house, not to fall in love with the boy who never said goodbye. Jonah Merritt left Beaufort at nineteen and came back a widow with a daughter and a company. He has spent five years building a glass house so no one can get close enough to break it again. He has also been the largest silent employer in the county, quietly funding the church roof fund and the high school robotics team that his daughter is not old enough to join. When Cadence's preschool calls, Jonah needs someone with soft hands and no interest in the local paper. Tilly needs a check. Sixty days. One guest cottage. A little girl who refuses to sleep through the night until a stranger plants tomatoes with her in the dark. Somewhere between the hurricane and the foundation vote and the two acres at the edge of Jonah's land, the two of them decide that coming home is not the same thing as failing. A single dad billionaire rags-to-riches reunion novel about the slow business of forgiveness.