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In the fall of 2004, eighteen-year-old Rosie Benson leaves her family in Florida to build a new life in the small town of Mount Joy, Kentucky.
Determined to become a pediatric doctor, Rosie must learn to balance college, Type 1 diabetes, new responsibilities, and the challenge of creating a home far from everything familiar.
Then she meets Karen Divine.
Karen is a locomotive machinist with grease on her hands, dreams of operating the trains she repairs, and a guarded heart she rarely allows anyone to see. What begins as an unexpected friendship slowly grows through late-night conversations, shared meals, difficult truths, and the quiet kindness of two women discovering that love should never require either of them to become smaller.
With an orange-and-white cat ruling Rosie's apartment, a devoted community watching over them, and new opportunities drawing both women closer to their dreams, Rosie and Karen must decide whether old wounds will control their future-or whether they are finally ready to choose each other.
Set beneath fairy lights and beside steel rails, *Engine of My Heart: Fairy Lights on Steel Rails* is a warm, emotional sapphic romance about ambitious dreams, healing, found family, and a friendship becoming something neither woman can deny.
Sometimes the person destined to change your life arrives long before you understand why.
This story is complete. New chapters every Thursday and Sunday.