Homecoming: Small Town Women's Fiction Romantic Suspense

Then her parents’ new neighbor turns up at her counter—easy, funny, unhurried, and entirely too good at making her laugh. Charlie doesn’t push. That’s the problem. Wanting him is easier than she expected, and easy is the one thing Lauren has never trusted.

She’s been careful for eleven years. Careful since the night her cousin Margie handed her over and vanished, and Lauren learned what the people who love you are capable of. Careful is what keeps her upright.

But the past has been quietly moving back into Olman County. And when a local businesswoman disappears, the investigation doesn’t lead where anyone expects—it leads straight back to the night Lauren survived, and to someone she buried a long time ago.

Everything she thought she knew about that night was only half the story.

Homecoming is the first book in the Olman County Series. Told in dual POV, it's a small-town romantic suspense set in fictional Leroy, Indiana—a town full of meddling friends and family, whispers and rumors, and secrets buried beneath it all. At its core, it’s a slow-burn next-door romance between a protective hero coming home again to start over and a damaged single mother whose past comes looking for her when a local woman disappears.

Content Note: This book contains themes of recovering from past sexual abuse and trauma.