Ellie traveled thousands of miles to escape her ex. She finds her safe place in a small town in the Midwest. Her only focus is to pick herself back up and find her strength to paint again.

What she doesn’t expect to find is the brooding single dad and his adorable toddler next door. Ellie’s new neighbor gives her a much-needed job at his construction company and lunch date conversations her broken soul yearns for.

Their friendship grows as she works on her fresh start and Reece battles a ghost that torments his nights. Everything seems perfect until Ellie’s past threatens to reappear. It could test the foundations she worked so hard to rebuild.

An emotional small town second chance at love stand-alone contemporary romance with a heartwarming happily ever after.