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She lost her career. She might be about to find her life.

Colleen Carter spent fifteen years building the marketing career that was supposed to prove everything. One phone call takes it all away. Job gone. Future uncertain. Pride shattered. With nowhere else to turn, she drives north to Stillwater Cove, the small Maine coastal town she could not wait to leave.

But home is not the same.

Ben Walsh, the boy she grew up next to, is now a widower, raising his young son Milo and fighting to keep his father's lobster business afloat. He remembers her. He has been quietly tracking her career for years. And the way he looks at her across the galley of his boat feels like a question she does not know how to answer yet.

Then, tucked inside her late father's belongings, Colleen finds something she never expected, his private journals, and the quiet record of a faith she never knew he had. A modest inheritance he left her comes with no instructions. Only a daughter trying to hear what a dying man wanted her to know.

The community center is in trouble. The town board has written it off. A former colleague in Boston is offering Colleen the comeback she spent a decade chasing. And the harder she tries to walk the safe road, the more clearly she hears another one calling her name.

What if God has been working in her life long before she ever noticed?

What if coming home is not a step backward, but the first honest step she has ever taken?

A deeply moving story of second chances, small-town grace, and the courage to choose the life you never planned.