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Sarah Beth McAllister returns home to Rossville, Georgia broken and wiser after being estranged from her mama for eight years. She’ll surely have to eat a little humble pie to get back into Mama’s good graces, especially since all she has to offer is her four-year-old daughter and a boatload of guilt.
Maybe if Sarah Beth had taken Mama’s lifelong lament on the evils of men to heart, she wouldn’t have been in such a fix. Like mother, like daughter.
But a lot can change in eight years. Mama’s taken to bed, the family-owned motel where she was raised is crumbling around her, and a stranger seems to be her only lifeline.
The railroad is in Aaron Cooper’s blood. It should be since he’s the fourth generation to make a career of it. But times are changing, and a smart man will make whatever shift necessary to keep up. Like buying the rundown motel next door—or rather the land it sits on—to build a spec home. Fix ’em and flip ’em.
The only problem is, Georgina Pickett is as prickly as a porcupine and doesn’t much like him, even though he’s keeping her in groceries. It doesn’t appear she has anyone else in her life, which might could be why she’s so cantankerous. It’s his Christian duty—even if he has an ulterior motive.
But Aaron doesn’t take into account Sarah Beth McAllister. When she arrives on the scene with a precocious little girl, a high-maintenance puppy, and a mystery to solve, she starts to chip away at the wall he’d built around his heart.
