The Country Boy Next Door

For seven years, Naomi Jackson told herself the same thing:

Her father left.

So when he dies unexpectedly and leaves behind his lake house, his money, and a lifetime of unanswered questions, she's forced to face the one place she's spent years avoiding.

A small town in Florida.

With nothing but time on her hands and grief she can't seem to outrun, Naomi packs up her life and heads south with one goal in mind: renovate the house, settle his affairs, and leave.

Simple.

At least that's the plan.

Instead, she finds herself drowning in old memories, too much alcohol, and the kind of loneliness that follows you no matter where you go.

Then there's the man across the lake.

A country boy with rough hands, a successful landscaping business, and a habit of showing up when she least wants company.

What starts as an unlikely friendship slowly turns into something neither of them expected. And as Naomi begins piecing the house back together, she starts piecing herself back together too.

But healing isn't easy when you're still carrying anger. Or guilt. Or the weight of everything left unsaid.

Caught between the woman she's become and the woman she wants to be, Naomi must decide if she's ready to stop running from her past, and finally let someone love her through it.

Sometimes healing looks like grief.

Sometimes it looks like coming home.

And sometimes it looks like the country boy across the lake.