watsaby
Margot Hale has spent thirty years restoring houses that time nearly destroyed.
At fifty-two, she has everything she was supposed to want: a prestigious company, considerable wealth, a beautiful home, and a family. Yet behind the perfectly restored walls of her life, something has remained unfinished.
Then she meets Juno Reyes.
Juno is twenty-six, a restoration carpenter who works with her hands and has no interest in being impressed by Margot's name, money, or reputation. She is blunt, independent, stubborn-and somehow the first person in decades who makes Margot feel like a person rather than a portfolio.
They meet inside a forgotten Queen Anne house.
As they restore its woodwork, its walls, and its history, something between them begins to take shape.
But restoring a house is easier than restoring a life.
Margot will have to learn that love cannot be bought, controlled, or managed.
Juno will have to decide whether she can love a woman whose world is so much larger than hers without losing herself inside it.
Between old wood, buried grief, family resistance, wealth, age, and a house that seems to remember everything, two women will discover that some things cannot be repaired.
They have to be rebuilt.
Some houses are restored.
Some people are too.