Building Fences by Violet Howe
Cedar Creek Families book 1. Contemporary romance.
Caroline meets Levi on the way to meet her birth mother. Complications and small town situations have the two spending time together and their attraction to each other grows.

Heartwarming and lovely, this single mother takes a chance on multiple issues. Her first description of her stay at home status is empowering and thoughtful. She thinks when she doesn’t have custody of the children for a weekend that’s she depressed but in truth, she just needed purpose. She finds that and it’s so fulfilling.
I enjoyed Caroline’s building relationships and her finding home. It’s a book I stayed up way too late reading so I could get resolution and that satisfying wrap up.

The various Cedar Creek series are all loosely connected by town and family connections but don’t need to be read together.

“Who builds all these fences?” Ethan asked.
“ Levi has a crew that manages that now, but I have to say, I miss the days when I’d head out with the boys to spend hours putting posts in the ground or repairing fenceline. There’s nothing like the steady labor of building fences to give you time to think. Clear your head. I spent many a year building fences in my youth. Fences keep things you don’t want out, and keep what we value most in. They also remind us to pay attention to what’s right in front of us rather than spending all our time gazing off into the horizon for what might be. Or what might’ve been.”
Excerpt from Building Fences by Violet Howe ( )