Let Me Be the One

Callie McCallahan left Hoker, Kentucky, as a girl when her parents moved the family away to chase money. Years later her life has hit a run of setbacks, the latest a failed engagement that left her humiliated. Then she inherits her uncle's farm in her old neighborhood.

She sees it as a fresh start. Her plan is to use her social media skills to build a new audience and rebuild her career. The problem is that she knows nothing about farming.

Next door, Tanner Patrick runs his family's tree farm and keeps his head down. In high school he had a crush on Callie, who barely knew he existed. Ten years on, she is his neighbor, and he cannot stop noticing how cheerful and out of her depth she looks.

Their first real meeting comes when Callie stumbles out of the woods and finds Tanner with a chain saw. This is a small-town contemporary romance, the first book in the Family Ties series. It turns on whether a second chance, for both of them, is waiting in the fields between their two farms.