The Long Way Back to You

Sometimes the way forward leads you home.

About the story

Coming home is easier than explaining why you left.

The road into Cedar Landing brings the lake back into view—and with it, everything she has tried not to remember. Leaving the city before dawn was difficult enough. Arriving at her family’s nursery, with its weathered sign and a father who looks older than he should, makes the return feel suddenly real.

There is work to do, a greenhouse that needs attention, and a family habit of saving hard conversations for a later that never quite comes. Against that familiar landscape, the possibility of love asks a question the city could not settle: what would starting again actually look like?

A small-town second-chance romance about family ties, the lives we leave behind, and finding a way forward in a place that still knows our name.

Your kind of romance?

• A lakeside homecoming
• A family nursery and garden center
• Small-town second chances
• Starting again after a life changes

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From the opening pages

The road into Cedar Landing does this thing where it drops out of the pines all at once, and the lake is just there — flat and silver and enormous, like it’s been waiting the whole time to remind you how small you are.

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