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A surprise niece. A brother's final wish. A childhood first love living right across the street.

Indigo "Indy" Stone built a good life in Charleston — a therapy practice, a quiet apartment, a clean break from the hometown that nearly broke her. Then her estranged brother Danny dies and leaves her the one thing she never saw coming: custody of ten-year-old Harper, a niece she didn't know existed.

Now Indy is driving back to Peach Valley, Georgia. She's buying the childhood house where everything went wrong. She's trying to be a mother to a grieving little girl who blames her for not being there. And she's about to find out that she's not the only ghost coming home.

Drake Woods came back to Peach Valley because it was the last place he was ever truly happy. An Iraq War veteran. A middle-school history teacher. A man with more scars than he knows what to do with. He bought the little rental house next door to Indy's childhood home — the same house he lived in at twelve, before his mother sent him away — and he spent years quietly trying to find her.

He never expected her to walk back into his life. He never expected to be her niece's teacher. And he never expected Kent Akers, the golden-boy PE teacher and Indy's high school prom date, to decide he wants her back too.

Two broken people. Thirty years of scars and secrets and stories they've never told anyone else. A grieving ten-year-old who needs them both. And a freezing Georgia night in the woods that will force one of them to decide exactly what he's willing to lose — and what he's finally willing to fight for.

An emotional, deeply Southern second chance romance about going home, growing up, and the quiet miracle of finding your way back to the person who knew you first.