The Sweetness of Second Chances
Willa Boone bakes with a little more than butter and flour. Her grandmother's recipes carry something older, something the whole town of Sweetwater Hollow has learned not to ask too many questions about, cinnamon rolls that spill a truth nobody meant to tell, pie crust that knows exactly who's been lying to themselves. It's a good, quiet life. A little lonely, maybe. But quiet.
Then Jonah Calloway comes home.
Twelve years ago he climbed into his daddy's truck and never looked back, not one phone call, not one word of explanation, just gone, leaving Willa to bury the girl who'd loved him under a life that didn't have room for that kind of foolishness anymore. Now his father's dead, his childhood home is his to settle, and the land bordering the bakery, the very ground her family's magic runs through, is his to sell or keep.
Willa has spent twelve years making sure her heart doesn't answer when his name comes up. Her kitchen, unfortunately, never got the memo.
Between a county road that won't stop bringing his truck past her window, a fence line neither of them can quite bring themselves to mend or tear down, and a magic that won't shut up about what she's really feeling, Willa is about to learn the hardest lesson her grandmother ever tried to teach her: some fences aren't there to keep anyone out. They're just what's left when nobody was brave enough to build a door.
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