Fresh Starts & Power Tools

Some people get a second chance at love. Heather Collins would rather have a root canal.Sixteen years ago, Jake Walker broke her heart and left Willow Springs behind. Heather stayed, built a life, raised her daughter, and learned exactly how much she could handle on her own.Then Jake comes home.Older, infuriatingly handsome, and carrying plenty of baggage of his own, Jake isn't the boy who left anymore. He's a single dad trying to give his kids the fresh start they deserve-and somehow, that fresh start keeps putting him directly in Heather's path.Between meddling family, teenage drama, small-town gossip, one oversized rescue dog, and enough unresolved history to fill a hardware store, avoiding each other becomes increasingly impossible.Because underneath sixteen years of hurt is a connection neither of them ever completely forgot.And this time, Jake isn't planning to leave.Fresh Starts & Power Tools is a second-chance, small-town romance about first loves, found family, forgiveness, and discovering that sometimes the life you thought you'd lost is only waiting for you to come home.