Someone to Come Home To

Nate Vance can fix a transmission. Raising his five-year-old daughter alone is harder—especially when every school conference leaves him feeling like he's failing her. Two years after losing his wife, the small-town mechanic has made room for work, lunchboxes, and very little else. Then an anonymous support forum brings him BlueSky404: a woman who listens without judging and makes him laugh when the house feels too quiet. Late-night confessions become the part of his day he waits for. When she agrees to meet him, Nate has to face something a screen has let him avoid: being seen, grief and grease stains included. He's beginning to believe he could love again. Can he let someone close enough to try? A tender, closed-door romance with a happy ending.