Threads of Grace (Laurel Ridge Series: Book 18) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966093329)

Some loves are pieced together one stitch at a time.

When a January storm sends her new landlord to her door because of a roof leak, quilt shop owner Melanie Harper has no idea that this quiet, guarded doctor will unravel every careful protection she has spent years stitching around her heart.

Dr. Zane Fitch returned to Laurel Ridge, West Virginia, to say goodbye to his dying father. Six months later, he is still here-running the medical practice, doing his best to manage his father's properties, and wondering whether staying is a choice or simply the path of least resistance. He has already failed at love once. He knows better than to risk his heart again.

But Melanie makes him want to risk everything.

As the renovation of her building throws them together and the small-town rhythm of church suppers, snowy walks, and conversations at Martha's Diner draws them closer, Zane finds himself falling for a woman who makes Laurel Ridge feel like home.

Melanie has learned that the safest heart is a guarded one. Yet Zane keeps appearing at the edges of her carefully constructed life, steady and sincere.

When she discovers he has been keeping a secret-one that could take him away from Laurel Ridge forever-everything she thought she knew about trust comes crashing down.

Now Zane must prove that his silence came from fear, not deception. And Melanie must decide whether love is worth the risk.