The Pastor He Left Behind

Pastor Hannah Wren has served First Community for eight years, and she has exactly one rule about the pulpit: no personal announcements. Then Ben Calder comes home to bury his father and settle an estate nobody knew was in trouble. He was her first everything — and the reason she stopped singing aloud. A storm, a power outage, a church basement, and a night neither of them planned. When Hannah finds out she's pregnant, she has to face the congregation that raised her, a board that splinters, and the man who once chose his calling over her and now has to choose differently. Through Advent and Lent, through a confirmation and a funeral and a very public sermon, two people who loved each other at fifteen learn what it looks like to love each other in front of a whole town.