The Last Rosenwald Schoolhouse
A Second Chance Romance

About this book:

She came home to save a building. He stayed to build a future. Neither counted on the past refusing to stay buried.

Maeve Harrison has three weeks to prove the Pine Creek Rosenwald School is worth saving before Marcus Vance—her first love, her longest heartbreak, and now the city's planning director—bulldozes it for a water treatment plant. Armed with a tape measure, a state injunction, and ninety years of virgin heart pine on her side, Maeve is ready to fight the town that raised her for a history it tried to forget. But the deeper she digs into the school's bones, the more she uncovers about the community that built it board by board, and the man who chose to stay when she chose to leave.

As the council vote looms and the Mississippi heat bears down, old arguments flare into new passion, and the line between preservation and progress blurs. In a town where kudzu swallows memories whole and the past is never really past, Maeve and Marcus must decide if some foundations are strong enough to build a second chance on—or if some structures are simply too damaged to restore.