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When city inspectors give Wren Calder six weeks to reopen the shuttered cafe on Alder Bend’s riverfront, she hires the one man in town who knows how to keep neighbors from turning every disagreement into a feud. Silas Mercer is the county mediator assigned to the flood-recovery board, and he has spent years smoothing over everyone else’s damage while keeping his own life carefully contained. As they race to restore the old cedar-paneled cafe before the autumn harvest festival, they uncover more than damaged wiring and missing permits: old debts, a contested lease, and the kind of grief that changes how a person reaches for the future. Wren is terrified that opening her late husband’s place will mean betraying the life they shared; Silas fears that if he lets anyone close, they will see the part of him that still believes love is just another thing that can disappear without warning. Together, they must decide whether a town built on memory can make room for a second beginning.
When city inspectors give Wren Calder six weeks to reopen the shuttered cafe on Alder Bend’s riverfront, she hires the one man in town who knows how to keep neighbors from turning every disagreement into a feud. Silas Mercer is the county mediator assigned to the flood-recovery board, and he has ...
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