When the place you're running to harbors the love that completes you unexpectedly...

Widowed single mother Eva Blankenship is finally ready to claim her inheritance – the Victorian bed and breakfast her beloved aunt left her in Riverbend Valley, Montana. After years of struggling as an inner-city teacher, she's determined to give her eight-year-old son Noah the idyllic small-town childhood she treasured growing up. What she doesn't expect is to find her first love from high school, Cade Mayer, working as the foreman on her parents' neighboring ranch.

Since his divorce eighteen months ago, Cade has lived a solitary existence, his trust shattered by his ex-wife's betrayal that cost him his family ranch and everything he'd worked for. The last thing he needs is Eva's return threatening the careful emotional walls he's built. But when Noah's fascination with ranch life creates unavoidable encounters, the spark between Eva and Cade proves impossible to ignore.

As summer unfolds in the shadow of the Sapphire Mountains, Eva works to restore the neglected bed and breakfast, while Cade finds himself reluctantly drawn to both her infectious optimism and her son's desperate need for a father figure. Their forced proximity during renovation projects gradually wears down their defenses, revealing wounds that only honest vulnerability and genuine faith can heal.

When an unexpected opportunity threatens to pull them apart just as they're finding their way back to each other, Eva and Cade must decide if love is worth risking their hearts again. Can a second chance romance heal two wounded souls? Or will past hurts and fears keep them from building the family they both secretly long for?

Perfect for fans that enjoy emotional small-town romance, a wounded cowboy hero, a determined single mom, and a precocious child who brings them together.

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"Home to Lost Creek" is a heartwarming story about finding courage to love again, the healing power of community, and the truth that sometimes the very thing we're running from is exactly what we need to become whole.