Sparks Over Cedar Falls: When the Light You've Been Running From Is the One That Leads You Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184830872)

Some sparks fade in an instant. Others change everything.

For three summers, fireworks coordinator Nadia Calloway has painted the skies above Cedar Falls, Tennessee, with dazzling bursts of light. She knows how to control fire, how to choreograph beauty, and how to keep every dangerous thing at a safe distance-including love. After a shattered engagement left her heart bruised and her faith in God quietly smoldering, Nadia has decided that temporary brilliance is safer than lasting hope.

Then Cedar Falls hires Eli Hargrove.

A steady landscaping contractor and volunteer firefighter, Eli is rooted in the town Nadia only visits, full of quiet warmth she cannot dismiss and faith she does not fully understand. He believes in second chances with the patience of a man who has learned to wait for rain. But beneath his calm strength, Eli carries a private burden of guilt-and a vow to God that may keep him from reaching for the very love beginning to grow between them.

As the town's legendary Independence Day celebration draws near, Nadia and Eli are forced into a season of tangled plans, comic mishaps, meddling neighbors, late-night work under the Tennessee stars, and one stubborn fireworks display that refuses to behave. Somewhere between smoke-stained hands, barbecue-scented evenings, and conversations neither of them expected to have, guarded hearts begin to soften.

But when Nadia's past arrives in Cedar Falls with an apology and a question, and Eli's own wounds demand a reckoning, both must decide whether grace is strong enough to heal what shame has broken.

Warm, witty, and deeply moving, Sparks Over Cedar Falls is a stand-alone Christian romance about second chances, small-town belonging, surrendered hearts, and the kind of love that remains when the smoke clears.

Perfect for readers who enjoy heartfelt small-town romance, faith-filled emotional healing, lovable community meddling, slow-burn chemistry stories.