One Year to Change Everything
Five women. Five small towns. One year to become someone new.
Some people change their lives all at once. Most of us do it the slow way — one honest conversation, one Sunday morning, one decision we're not sure we can live with — until we don't recognize the woman who arrived.
One Year to Change Everything is five standalone Christian small-town romances about women who gave themselves twelve months and no plan B. A bookshop in a Maine fishing village, a pecan orchard in south Georgia, a courthouse clock that runs four minutes slow. Men who are good with their hands and bad at saying what they mean. Church potlucks, diners where everyone knows your order, neighbors who show up before you've worked out how to ask.
Every book stands alone. Read them in any order.
BOOK ONE — SAY YES
Claire Whitmore bought a hundred-year-old hardware store in a Maine fishing village sight unseen, drove up from Boston through a January snowstorm, and had a bookshop by spring. That was the plan.
The carpenter she hired has opinions about the back wall, the basement, and the timeline. He shares almost none of them. Jesse Callahan has never lived anywhere but Harborside, and can't work out why a woman would trade a whole life for a building with a soft spot in the masonry.
Claire came to Maine to stop saying no. She just didn't expect the hardest yes to be a person.
BOOK TWO — LET GO
Anna Mercer hasn't laughed out loud in two and a half years. She notices the exact moment it happens again — on a porch swing at eighty-five hundred feet, holding a thermos a stranger handed her before she'd said a word.
She came to Silver Creek for six months of quiet. But there's an outfitter run by a man with a daughter who asks questions nobody else will, and an empty shop with a For Lease sign she can't stop walking past.
Anna has spent years holding on with both hands. Colorado is asking her to open them.
BOOK THREE — COME HOME
After seven years overseas, Savannah Cross steps off a bus in Ellenwood, Georgia with one duffel bag and no idea what comes next. The mission field taught her how to arrive anywhere and belong to nowhere.
Then a chilling frost comes for the Rhodes orchard, and half the town works through the night beside her — including a farmer who preaches on Sundays and can't answer the one question she keeps asking.
Savannah knows how to leave. Ellenwood is teaching her something harder.
BOOK FOUR — TAKE THE LEAP
On her twenty-eighth birthday, Jordan Blake's best friend tells her the truth: she's lived the same year nine times in a row. Same apartment. Same haircut. Same booth at the same diner in the town she's never left.
So Jordan writes a list of brave things and tapes it to the fridge.
She doesn't expect it to lead her to a widowed carpenter and a little girl who hasn't spoken since her mother died. And she certainly doesn't expect the scariest thing on the list to be the one she wrote last.
BOOK FIVE — STOP RUNNING
Natalie Pierce has been engaged twice and married never. She picked Cedarton, Tennessee off a map for one reason: nobody there knows a thing about her, and she means to keep it that way.
She takes a job keeping books for a furniture maker whose workshop is drowning in unpaid invoices and whose grandfather is forgetting the names of his tools. Owen builds things meant to outlast him. He doesn't chase anybody.
Natalie gave herself a year. She's never stayed anywhere that long.
Five full-length, standalone Christian romances. Faith woven through and a happy ending in every book.
