A Place Where Hearts Meet : A Small-Town Christian Romance (A Place Called Home Series)
About
She came with a binder. He came with his hands. The bridge needed both.
Piper Langford doesn’t do chaos. She does color-coded tabs, fourteen-week timelines, and laminated binder covers. When the Virginia Heritage Trust assigns her to restore a crumbling 1884 covered bridge in the tiny town of Laurel Hollow, she arrives with a system for everything — except the carpenter.
Elijah Fletcher builds things and leaves them. It’s what he’s done since his father died — one project, one town, one departure at a time. Laurel Hollow is supposed to be another stop. The bridge is supposed to be another job. The woman with the clipboard and the seventeen-point assessment checklist is supposed to be another project lead he tolerates until the work is done.
She wasn’t supposed to matter.
But the bridge has secrets. A chestnut beam hidden for a century. A prayer carved into the king post. Initials in the dark from a love story that began in 1886. And a town full of people who have been holding this bridge together with stubbornness, sweet tea, and Wednesday pie for longer than either Piper or Elijah has been alive.
There’s Dottie Pruitt, eighty-one years old, watching from her kitchen window. Wallace Fenn, who’s been writing a book about the bridge for thirty years. Alma Briggs, who runs the general store and sees everything. And a developer named Garrett Kinley, who thinks the bridge is worth more torn down than standing.
As the restoration uncovers the bridge’s history, it also uncovers something Piper and Elijah have been hiding from themselves: the distance between them is closing. Twenty feet becomes twelve. Twelve becomes six. Six becomes the kind of closeness that no binder has a tab for.
But Elijah has a contract for his next job in his kitchen drawer. And Piper has spent two years rebuilding a life after a man who told her she loved the plan more than the person. Staying means risking everything the system was built to protect.
A Place Where Hearts Meet is a clean Christian romance about the faith it takes to stop measuring and start trusting — in a man who listens to wood, in a God who holds what we can’t, and in a love that doesn’t need a fourteen-week timeline to know it’s built to last.
Book 7 in the A Place Called Home series. Can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers. No spice. Just faith, small-town charm, and a love story built on rock.