She's not your average city girl looking for a new beginning. .

. Ava Montgomery is desperate for a safe place to call home.

On the run from her controlling marriage and fearing for her son's safety, she hopes the small town of Bellethorpe she left years ago is the one location her husband won't think to look. Local builder, Noah Hawthorn, has no time for city chicks disrupting his town's idyllic country lifestyle.

Especially one who purchased the dream house he planned to buy before his wife left him. But Noah can't say no to renovating Ava's home, because the money will help him to fight for custody of his daughter.

Except when they uncover an incredible historical find on the grounds, the secrets they've both been keeping threaten to be exposed. If Ava and Noah can't learn to trust their hidden feelings for each other, it's not only their pasts that are in danger of catching up with them.

Their chances of building a new future together could be destroyed too. .

. Readers will delight in returning to small-town Bellethorpe where they'll meet new characters and run into old friends.

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