The Long Road Home

Trisha Thompson has spent her whole life being easy to keep. She runs her grandmother's diner in Clanton, Louisiana, pouring coffee for the same familiar faces, and tells herself the quiet life she's built is enough. It has been. Or at least, she's gotten very good at pretending it is.

Then Scott Calhoun comes back to town. He's only here for the summer-- a groomsman, a pipeline worker, a man who's made a career of leaving. He's also the person who walks her home through the dark and tucks her hair behind her ear and holds himself at a deliberate, careful distance, like he's afraid of what happens if he stops.

And then, there's Henry Denton.

Henry is everything Scott isn't: steady, rooted, and present. He knows what he wants, and he wants her. He's offering a real life-- a family, a future, a man who will still be there on a Tuesday. It's the kind of offer that makes sense. The kind a woman would be foolish to turn down.

Trisha isn't sure she's ever been the woman who reaches for what she actually wants. She's always been the one who stays, who folds herself small, who mistakes survival for stability.

But something about this summer is making it very hard to keep pretending.

The Long Road Home is a slow-burn, small-town contemporary romance for readers who love a love triangle that makes you genuinely question who to root for, a heroine learning to choose herself, and steam that earns every page it takes to get there.

Tropes

Age Gap (~10 years)

He Falls First (or at least... falls hard once he starts looking)

Virgin Heroine

Protective Hero / Touch Her and Die

Small Town / Everyone Knows Everyone

Slow Burn with High Heat

“You’re Mine Now” Energy 😈

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