One Home to Keep

Hendersonville. The town’s been dead for years and everyone’s got an opinion about its corpse.

I’ve kept my head down and my love life private for twenty years. I’m content hiding in plain sight. Then Aaron pitches an idea to sell our mill to outside developers and bring in the flatlander. I despise him, even if I can’t keep my eyes off the way his overalls hug that belly.

The town thinks we’re perfect enemies. He thinks I’m stuck in the past and I think he’s selling our future. If this feud is real, then why does he keep finding excuses to talk to me?

The vote’s in a week and Hendersonville has turned our debate into a full fledged war. Gladys is organizing committees. Rita’s hosting a pie bake-off for the cause. Even Sheryl is campaigning like our lives depend on it. While the town dukes it out, Aaron and I are finding we have more in common than either of us ever believed.

Twenty years of hiding and this infuriating contractor is making me reconsider why.