The Midnight Porch Pact (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798274163255)

After a bruising divorce, Lauren Hayes rents half of a creaky duplex and vows to rebuild her life one small win at a time. On her very first night, she meets her neighbor across the rail-Luke Ramirez, an Austin ER medic whose steadiness feels like gravity. Between midnight cups of tea and the soft ritual of two knuckles on the shared porch rail, they draft a simple agreement to help each other keep going: The Midnight Porch Pact. Name it. Mark the tiny wins. Keep the line open when the clock is rude.

When storms knock the power out, the porch becomes a beacon for the whole block; when raccoons stage a coup at the church dumpster, the cul-de-sac calls Lauren; when an elderly neighbor wobbles, Luke is there with quiet hands and clear instructions. Little by little, a neighborhood turns into a net-and two tired people remember how to be held.

The Midnight Porch Pact is a tender, witty, community-rooted love story about making a life that holds, one small kindness at a time.