Finding Home by Cynthia Cooke

In a moment of passion, Samantha throws caution to the wind, realizes her fondest dream, and conceives a lie that will be her biggest obstacle to finding true love.

After one secret night together, Ben Dearborn, the boy next door who Sam’s always loved disappeared, leaving Sam pregnant and alone. As the years pass she creates a new life for her and her son, working for the Dearborn family jewelry business. Now, she’s offered a scholarship, and an opportunity to leave Granite Falls. Before she can leave, tragedy strikes the Dearborn family, and brings Ben back home.

Six years ago, after finding his brother in bed with his fiancée, Ben left Granite Falls, and built a successful advertising career across the country. After an accident that kills his bother and lands his father in the hospital, his mother needs his help. He returns, only to discover his brother’s death wasn’t an accident.

Against Sam’s better judgment, she helps Ben save the Dearborn family business. The Dearborns have done so much for her over the years, she wants to help them. As she and Ben get closer, she tells him the truth—he’s Jamie’s father.

Ben can’t be a father. He has a career waiting for him across the country. A career that needs him. Is he willing to risk everything he’s built? In a panic, he returns to California only to discover how empty his life is. He realizes he wants more than a career, he wants a family. He leaves his job and returns to Granite Falls, hoping Sam will forgive him, but Sam is missing.

Someone doesn’t want their secrets exposed and will kill to cover their tracks. Sam escapes her captor and Ben finds her before it’s too late. They have been given a second chance to make things right for their family, and for each other. Will they take it, or will fear shatter their dreams. Only by working together and trusting in each other can the two discover who the killer is, before he strikes again, and find the happily ever after they’ve both been longing for.