The man who came to build
Derek Reznor closed his eyes, threw a pushpin at a map, and built his daughter a whole new life in a town he'd never heard of.
He didn't plan on building anything else.
At thirty-eight, Derek sold the water-management company he'd spent his life inventing, and it left him with more money than he knows what to do with and nothing left to fix. Then his eight-year-old daughter, Emery, asks one simple question in a Wyoming park: why isn't there a swimming pool here? And Derek finds the one thing he still knows how to do. Build something nobody asked him to build.
Springwater doesn't want his money. It wants to know if he's staying.
Vanessa Elliot has spent a year rebuilding herself into someone her hometown might actually trust again, one welcome basket at a time. She knows exactly how to get a stubborn small-town council to say yes to a stranger's half-formed idea. What she doesn't expect is to fall for the reason she said yes in the first place.
Standing between them is Vanessa's father, the quiet banker who has run Springwater's business ever since the town's last scandal, who has no intention of watching an outsider's money undo everything he rebuilt, and who knows exactly which phone call could cost Derek the one thing he can't replace. Standing between them, too, is a little girl's hard-won trust, a summer of showing up in the heat, and a whole town's slow, stubborn habit of deciding for itself who gets to belong.
One summer. One half-built pool. Two people who have to choose, in front of the whole town watching, whether they're brave enough to stay.
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