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What happens when the past you ran from meets you at the front porch—complete with peeling paint and a goat in the window?

In Beauty for Ashes, we meet Grace—a woman with a guarded heart, a car that’s barely holding on, and a suitcase full of emotional baggage. She returns to Willow Creek, a place she vowed never to see again, only to find the town hasn’t changed… but maybe she has.

Chapter One, The Return, introduces us to early summer in small-town, where the honeysuckle is thick, the locals are nosy, and healing might be hiding in plain sight. From a run-in with an elderly neighbor who mistakes her for a vagrant, to a confusing encounter with a T-shirt-clad pastor named Luke, Grace is instantly in over her head—and exactly where she’s supposed to be.

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Get to know Grace, meet Pastor Luke, and catch a glimpse of the past that won’t let go.

Because sometimes, the road back is the first step forward.