Wild Hearts Don't Stay

When Callie James arrives in Cottonwood Crossing, Kansas, she's carrying little more than a suitcase, the keys to her late grandmother's farmhouse, and a past she's desperate to leave behind.
The quiet prairie town is the last place anyone would think to look for her.
Surrounded by endless wheat fields, summer storms, and neighbours who know everyone's name, Callie slowly begins rebuilding a life she never thought she'd have. She wasn't looking for friendship. She certainly wasn't looking for love.
Then she meets Luke Kennedy.
An architect-turned-carpenter with deep roots in Cottonwood Crossing, Luke returned home years ago believing he'd only stay long enough to help his family. Life had other plans. Now he spends his days restoring old homes, quietly carrying the heartbreak of the woman who left-and the future he once imagined.
As spring turns to summer and the prairie comes alive, so does something neither of them expected.
But the past has a way of finding you.
And when the life Callie escaped threatens everything she's begun to build, she'll have to decide whether running is the only way to survive... or whether some hearts are finally meant to stay.
Set in the fictional town of Cottonwood Crossing, this is a slow-burn, small-town romance about healing, second chances, found family, and discovering that home isn't always a place-sometimes it's a person.