The most efficient solution she ever found was learning how to stay.

Evelyn Marlowe built her life on ambition and scale, but a public scandal brought it all crashing down. Humiliated and exiled from the world she knew, the disgraced executive is sentenced to community service in Harveston—a rotting, nearly-forgotten town that locals bitterly call "The Place God Forgot."

Evelyn arrives planning only to survive her sentence, but she is immediately challenged by Pastor Samuel Hale. A kind but weary widower, Samuel has been fighting a losing battle against the town's decay and his own profound grief. Their relationship is a collision of cold efficiency and quiet, persistent faith.

As Evelyn swaps her spreadsheets for shovels, her ruthless intelligence begins to repair Harveston's broken infrastructure. In the demanding, unscalable labor of planting a community garden and mending broken walls, she starts digging up something more profound: her lost purpose, her buried faith, and a deep, unexpected love.

The book explores redemption through service and healing after shame, proving that grace is not a grand, instant miracle, but the quiet, persistent effort of the ordinary day. When their revitalized community is threatened by corporate greed and the insidious lure of massive success, Evelyn and Samuel must defend their home with the enduring power of their unique, imperfect commitment.

Discover the powerful truth that even the most broken people and "forgotten" places are never beyond God's reach.