Blueprints, Backstories & Beginning Again: A Delaney Novel

By Greer Delaney

The cannery was never just a building.
It was a system. A history. A story people chose how to tell.

When investigative journalist Iris Bennett arrives in Delaney to cover a redevelopment project, she expects a straightforward narrative-progress versus preservation, future versus past. What she finds instead is a town built on something far more complicated.

Mae Rowan doesn't believe in preserving things just to keep them unchanged. As a historic preservation consultant, she understands what most people miss-buildings don't just hold history. They reveal how people made decisions, especially when those decisions were hard.

When Iris uncovers a buried truth about the cannery's past-one that was never meant to be public-the story changes. So does everything between them.

Because telling the truth isn't the same as understanding it.
And some histories don't just reshape a town.
They redefine the people who choose to stay.

In a place where every structure carries memory, Mae and Iris must decide what matters more-being right, or building something that still holds.

Blueprints, Backstories & Beginning Again is a layered, slow-burn small-town romance about truth, accountability, and the kind of love that asks you to see things clearly-even when it would be easier not to.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7P44FY4
• ISBN13: 9798185647028
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"