He came home to bury his father. He stayed to build a family worth fighting for.

Keagan Ellery spent twenty years proving his father wrong—building Manhattan skyscrapers instead of maintaining Wyoming fence lines, choosing concrete and steel over cattle and wide-open spaces. But when Ronan Ellery's sudden death forces him home, Keagan discovers that some legacies can't be outrun, and some truths arrive too late to speak aloud.

The ranch holds ghosts and revelations in equal measure: siblings scattered by the same impossible expectations, a foreman who knows secrets Keagan never suspected, and letters his father wrote but never sent—words of pride that could have changed everything, hidden away because love felt safer unexpressed than risked.

Then there's Shani Murrough.

A young widow with ancient eyes and a smile that breaks through his carefully constructed defenses, she's raising twins alone while running her late husband's business and carrying grief with a grace that humbles him. Their connection is immediate, inevitable, and everything Keagan swore he'd never risk again—until corporate predators target the valley, and staying silent means losing everything that finally feels like home.

When violence shatters their fragile peace and Shani vanishes into the hands of men who view her life as leverage, Keagan faces the ultimate test: how much is he willing to sacrifice for a family he's only just claimed? For children who aren't his by blood but have captured his heart completely? For a woman whose strength teaches him that love isn't weakness—it's the fiercest form of courage?

Keagan: Finding the Way Home is a sweeping contemporary romance about second chances and first loves, about fathers who fail and sons who forgive, about blended families built from loss and made whole by choice. It's a story of coming home—not to a place, but to the people who see your scars and love you anyway, who stand beside you when the world burns, and who prove that sometimes the greatest legacy isn't what we inherit, but what we're brave enough to build from the ashes of what came before.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Authors like Marie Force, Nicholas Sparks, and Robyn Carr
• Second-chance romance with emotional depth
• Blended family dynamics and single-parent heroes
• Small-town community and chosen family themes
• Romantic suspense with high stakes
• Cowboys who aren't afraid to cry
• Healing journeys and hard-won happily ever after’s