The Run Back Home

Lenora O'Reilly has many names—Nora, Lenny, Len—but only one major regret: choosing small-town life over true love.

When high school ended, Lenny couldn’t bring herself to leave the safety, security, and familiarity of Mage Hollow—even if it meant walking away from the plans she’d built with her MLB-bound boyfriend.

But what she didn’t realize was that the one thing she truly needed would disappear the moment she made that choice—

Him.

Now Lenny spends her life as a travel nurse—always moving, always leaving—because the place she once called home has never felt like home again.

Jace Holloway was always meant for the big leagues—talented, driven, and able to anticipate the last minute bounce or unpredictable hop. And the pit-stop his family made in Mage Hollow only proved that nothing could derail his dreams.

But there was one curveball Jace never saw coming—

Lenny staying after he left.

Now, six years later, although he's thriving in Golden City with his family back together, he's still living with regrets of his own.

And without the one person he never stopped missing.

When Lenny’s newest nursing assignment lands her in the same city where Jace now starts at shortstop for the Gators, neither of them expects to keep bumping into each other.

But they should have known—the universe has always had a way of putting them together.

Now they’re learning that you can’t outrun your problems.

And that scoring big almost always means heading home.