New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Courtney Walsh returns with a hopeful and emotional new book about seizing second chances, finding yourself, and forging your own path.
Beth Whitaker isn’t supposed to be a small-town girl. She’s always dreamed of leaving Willow Grove, Illinois, for the big city, but she feels trapped, struggling to make up for a mistake that’s haunted her for years. Just when Beth is finally ready to break free, her sister impulsively buys a beloved but run-down farm on the outskirts of town, and she begs Beth to help with the restoration. Reluctantly, Beth agrees to help–and puts her own dreams on hold once again.
Drew Barlow hasn’t been back to Fairwind Farm since he was a boy, and he’s spent all these years trying to outrun the pain of a past he thought he buried long ago. When he learns that the owner has passed away, his heart knows it’s finally time to do the right thing. Returning to Willow Grove, Drew revisits the old farm, where he attempts to piece together his memories and the puzzle of the crime he witnessed so long ago.
Both on a journey to find peace, Beth and Drew are surprised when they begin to experience a restoration of their own. But when long-buried secrets break through the soil and the truth unfurls, will it threaten their budding relationship–and the very future of the farm?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Hometown Girl
Book Author: Courtney Walsh
What do you like about this book:
" . . . . if you do what you were made to do, then you'll find the peace you've been looking for. You can't work for it, you know. You just have to rest in it."
Beth Whitaker has worked tirelessly to erase the mistake that may have led her father to an early grave. Her risky miscalculation cost the family company a lawsuit, which mercifully her father did not publicize. When her happy-go-lucky sister Molly, pops onto the scene with the harebrained idea of restoring an old community farm back to its glory days, Beth is insistent that the makeover would be financial suicide and uses every argument possible to dissuade her sister's optimism; to no avail.
Guilt has been an albatross around Drew Barlow's neck since childhood, after he witnessed a little girl's abduction, and subsequent disappearance, while playing an innocent game of hide and seek in an old barn on Fairwind Farm. Convinced that they only way to resolve the past is to return to Willow Grove, he finds that two polar opposite sisters and their brother have invested in the place following the owner's death. When the opportunity arises to manage the restoration project, his lovely boss with the intriguing array of personality traits, challenges Drew's defense mechanisms like no woman he has ever met. . . . . . but how can he possibly deserve happiness when the mystery he came to solve remains painfully out of reach?
"If you're going to be strong, you've got to learn to ask for help." This isn't just a good story, it's a great one!
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