A Second Chance [A Contemporary Christian Romance]

She built a life of glass and steel in the city, but her heart was buried in the red clay of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Clara Rhodes is the definition of success. A rising star architect in Charlotte, she is engaged to a high-powered developer and poised to reach the top of the skyline she’s spent years designing. But when her grandmother passes away, leaving her the struggling family apple orchard in Heritage Falls, Clara is forced to return to the one place she promised she’d never look back at.

He was the boy she left behind—the one who held the key to a secret she never knew existed.

Chance Miller has spent fifteen years as the steward of the Rhodes land, tending to the trees and waiting for a girl who never called. To the town, he’s a quiet, hardworking farmer. To Clara, he’s a painful reminder of the life she abandoned. But Chance is more than just a ghost from her past; he is the keeper of a blue steamer trunk hidden in the attic—a trunk filled with letters she never received and prayers she never heard.

A legacy built on a lie. A love preserved in prayer.

As a ruthless development group—led by her own fiancé—threatens to pave over her family’s history, Clara finds herself caught between the polished future she worked for and the rugged, faith-filled past she actually belongs to. To save the orchard, Clara must go beneath the surface—literally. Hidden under the floorboards of the cedar porch are fifteen years of secret carvings that prove she was never forgotten.

In a race against the first frost and a web of corporate lies, Clara must decide: will she build another glass box to live in, or will she finally claim her inheritance in Heritage Falls?