A runaway husband. A surprise pregnancy. And a mother-daughter bond put to the ultimate test.

Birdie Fuller's new year begins with a gut punch—her husband has vanished, emptying their bank accounts and leaving her alone to face their daughter's unplanned pregnancy. Birdie urges Hannah to end it. Hannah refuses.

As Hannah heads back to college for her final semester, Birdie is left to confront the cracks in her marriage—and the truth she's long avoided. Meanwhile, Hannah tries to keep her pregnancy hidden from friends and her ex while interviewing for jobs that will take her far from home—and her mother.

When Hannah returns to Palmetto Island to await her baby's birth, tensions rise in the cramped apartment they now share above a local bakery. Forced into close quarters with hearts still bruised, can mother and daughter find a way back to each other?

Muddy Bottom is the deeply moving first installment in the Palmetto Island series—a celebration of messy love, fierce women, and the power of second chances.