The Long Way Home

Book Description Some roads lead away. The hardest ones lead home. Emma Torres built the perfect life—a corner office in Seattle, a partnership at a prestigious law firm, and twelve years of distance from the small town she couldn't wait to leave. She told herself she'd moved on. She told herself she didn't need Maplewood. She was wrong. When her mother calls asking for help to save the community center from closing, Emma agrees to come home for three weeks. Just long enough to organize a fundraiser, then back to her real life. Simple. Professional. No emotional complications. Except nothing about Maplewood is simple anymore. Especially not Daniel Cross—her first love, the man she left without saying goodbye, who's spent twelve years building the life she ran from. He's still kind. Still devastatingly handsome. And still hurt by the girl who chose ambition over him. Working together to save the center means confronting the past Emma's been running from. It means coaching the high school debate team and rediscovering what community feels like. It means risking the carefully controlled life she's built for something messier, scarier, and infinitely more real. Can you go home again? Or is the real question whether you ever truly left? A heartfelt second-chance romance about finding your way back to the place—and the person—who always felt like home. Perfect for readers who love: Second-chance romance Small-town settings Career women finding balance Emotional, character-driven stories Happy endings worth the journey