The Shape of June
June Hartley thought she had escaped Pine Hollow, Vermont, for good, until a call about her estranged mother's failing health pulls her back to the sleepy town that never quite forgave her for leaving. The diner still serves the same bitter coffee, her old rival Dottie Marsh still trades barbs across the counter, and the locals still remember every mistake she made at eighteen. The only warmth comes from Peggy, the spunky diner owner who took her in as a teenager, a one-eared stray cat named Mr. Whiskers, and Henry Fitzwilliam, the stoic, soft-spoken farmer next door who says little but notices everything. As June begins restoring the crumbling family farmhouse she swore she'd never return to, she unearths a decades-old secret her mother buried with the foundation. Meanwhile, the formidable Large Marge, a woman whose opinion can make or break a newcomer's standing, is keeping a close eye on June's every move, and on Henry's unexpected interest in the Hartley girl who once broke his heart. The harder June tries to keep her distance, the more Pine Hollow pulls her in. With her old life in the city demanding she come back and a new life quietly taking root in the soil of her childhood, June must decide whether home is the place she fled, or the only place she was ever meant to stay.