by Rachel Hauck
First published 2019
Everleigh Applegate watches her world collapse when a tornado tears through Waco, Texas in spring 1953. The storm kills her husband and unborn child, leaving her broken and living with her mother seven years later. A chance meeting with high school friend Don Callahan offers her first glimpse of hope since the disaster, but Everleigh harbors a secret that could destroy their budding relationship. Meanwhile, New York police officer Beck Holiday inherits a mysterious house in north Florida from Everleigh Callahan, a woman Beck supposedly knows but cannot recall. Beck's memory problems began after her father died in the September 11 attacks, and her anger issues have just gotten her suspended from the force. She travels south to solve the puzzle of her inheritance and meets Bruno Endicott, who clearly remembers her even though she does not remember him. The house connects both women across decades, and each must confront painful truths about their past to find healing and love.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: second-chance-romance, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Florida, New York, Texas, Waco
Period: 1953, 2001, 2010s
373 pages · Paperback · Thomas Nelson
Content warnings: pregnancy-loss