Two Names and a Heartbeat

Rene Costello grew up on the wrong side of Mercy, Ohio, and has spent a decade proving the town wrong. She waits tables, fixes engines in her uncle's garage, and is one bad month from losing everything. Julian Voss bought the shuttered glass factory for reasons he won't explain, and he doesn't look at her like she's a rumor. First it's a truck, then an inventory job, then dinner on folding chairs, then a night in February. In March she finds out she's pregnant. She goes to him with a plan and a number, braced to be dismissed. Instead he offers her half a company. She refuses the half, takes the partnership, and spends the spring negotiating lawyers, saving a factory, and building something with her own name on it. A rags-to-riches small-town romance about a woman who takes the deal on her terms.