A Place to Find Forever: A Small-Town Christian Romance (A Place Called Home Series)
About
She was only passing through. The wheat farmer wasn’t supposed to change that.
Melody Cole has spent her whole life leaving. After a broken engagement in Portland left her convinced she’s her mother’s daughter—always moving, never staying—she takes a temporary job delivering handcrafted rings from a small town in eastern Oregon. Two weeks. One delivery. Then she’s gone.
But Eldon doesn’t do temporary.
The diner needs a waitress. The eighty-two-year-old metalworker needs an apprentice. A motherless bride needs someone to find a musician for her wedding. And the wheat farmer on the third stool—the one who orders the same breakfast every morning and hasn’t smiled in three years—needs someone brave enough to sit beside him and not try to fill the silence.
Graham Hale gave up a teaching career to save his family’s farm when his father’s hands started shaking. He doesn’t talk about the life he lost. He doesn’t complain. He just shows up every morning, does the work, and pretends the loneliness isn’t eating him alive. He doesn’t need a woman who’s already planning her exit.
Except Melody isn’t planning anything. For the first time in twenty-six years, she’s standing still. She’s pouring coffee and filing metal and learning to pray with her hands instead of her words. She’s discovering that faith isn’t a feeling—it’s the practice of showing up. And she’s falling in love with a man whose language is wheat and silence and small repairs made without being asked.
When a late-May frost threatens to destroy everything Graham has held together, Melody has to decide: is she the kind of woman who stays? Or is leaving the only thing she knows how to do?
A Place to Find Forever is a clean Christian contemporary romance about choosing to stay when everything in your history says run. It’s about faith as action, love as daily practice, and the courage it takes to let a small town become home.
Part of the A Place Called Home series. Can be read as a standalone.