LARGE PRINT What The House Kept: A Second Chance, Smal Town Romance

By Josephine Hale

Mari Hendricks has a system for everything. A list for the dishes, a column for what stays and what goes, a plan for being gone from Thistle Creek before anyone can ask her a question she isn't ready to answer.

She did not plan for Jonah Fletcher to show up on the doorstep with a clipboard and ten years of unfinished business.
He is the only realtor in three counties who can move a listing fast enough. He is also the boy she once carved her initials into a porch step with, and the man who has spent a decade wondering what he did to make her disappear.

Clearing out her mother's house should be simple. Instead, every room gives up a memory neither of them is ready for, and every session wears the careful distance between them a little more. When an aggressive out-of-town buyer forces the sale into overdrive, Mari has to choose between protecting the one secret she has spent her whole life guarding, and finally letting the one person she never stopped loving all the way in.

Some houses hold onto more than furniture. Before Mari can start over, she will have to go back, all the way back, to what the house kept.

Tropes: second chance - friends to lovers - enemies to lovers - forced proximity - small town - one house, one summer

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8JNVDF9
• ISBN13: 9798186787419
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"