After the Rain: A Novel

When a devastating flood tears through the small Alabama town of Linden Ferry, bookstore owner Eliza Fenwick loses the home and business she spent years building. Determined to rebuild Page & Pine without surrendering her independence, she finds herself working alongside Micah Vance, a reserved disaster-recovery contractor who understands damaged buildings far better than he understands putting down roots.As the town slowly comes back to life, Eliza and Micah are drawn together through long workdays, shared meals, and the ordinary moments that follow extraordinary loss. But Micah carries a private grief that has kept him moving from one temporary assignment to the next, while Eliza must decide whether rebuilding means restoring the life she had or making room for something new.After the Rain is a heartfelt clean contemporary romance about a small Southern town, a beloved bookstore, emotional healing, starting over, and finding a second chance at love when neither person expected it. Tender, mature, and hopeful, it is a love story about grief, resilience, community, and discovering that moving forward does not mean forgetting what came before.