Part of Your World

Alexis Montgomery has spent her life meeting other people's expectations. A thirty-seven-year-old ER doctor from a wealthy, prominent family of surgeons, she is under quiet pressure to carry on the family legacy, and is still entangled with a controlling ex. When her car goes into a ditch just outside the small town of Wakan, Minnesota, she is rescued by Daniel Grant, a twenty-eight-year-old carpenter who also happens to be the town's mayor — warm, capable, and utterly at home in the place he has no interest in leaving.

Their connection is immediate and inconvenient. He is younger, works with his hands, and belongs to a place; she has a career, a family legacy, and a life two hours away that expects her back. As she spends more time in Wakan, both must decide how much of themselves they are willing to give up, and how much they are willing to claim.

Abby Jimenez writes contemporary romance that mixes real humor with heavier emotional stakes. Part of Your World is a warm, funny, sometimes aching story about class, family pressure, and whether you can build a life on your own terms rather than the one you inherited.