First love. Second chance. And one Friday-night-lights kiss they can’t forget.

Twelve years ago, Rowan Wilkes drove past the Welcome to Tennessee sign with her graduation tassel swinging from the rearview mirror — and she hasn’t set foot in Maple Lake since.

Now she’s a Nashville country music star with a hit song the whole world thinks is about a fictional boy. He’s not fictional.

Lucas Hemingway is the boy who stayed. High school football coach. Funeral home son. Quietly building a counseling center for the kids his town keeps forgetting. The sort of steady, faith-rooted man who shows up for everyone — and waits for nobody.

Especially not the girl who left him at the fifty-yard line and rode out of town to chase the spotlight.

But Rowan’s sister is a two-time cancer survivor with a scholarship to her name and a homecoming weekend Rowan can’t bring herself to skip. Three weeks. One small Minnesota town. Enough Friday-night lights, maple scones, and front-porch reckonings to make a woman ask the question she’s been running from for a decade —

What if home was never the thing she had to leave behind?

From beloved inspirational romance author Janine Rosche, the second novel in Falling for Flannel — Sunrise Publishing’s new multi-author small-town romance series, set right in the heart of Maple Lake.

Falling for Flannel — Some stories are worth coming home for.