Sweet Magnolias meets Fixer Upper in this delightfully refreshing debut about a woman bravely chasing her dreams, building a life on her own terms, and maybe even discovering a second chance at love.
Magnolia Mack Bishop is staring down the barrel at single motherhoodthanks to an unsolicited personal picture her husband texted another woman that quickly went viral among every mom group in town. But shes determined to not let it distract her from the professional victory shes inches away from: securing Charlestons prestigious Historic Preservation Design Fellowship, the apple of every local designers eye.
But when the final house tour is undone by a host of calamities, Macks shot at the fellowship goes up in flames. Smelling blood in the water, Macks mother, the original Magnolia Bishop, breezes in with a project leadstrings attached. If theres one thing Magnolia lives for, aside from maintaining her station atop the Southern social ladder, its to control Macks life . . . and that includes keeping the identity of the absentee father Mack never knew in the shadows.
While working for her mother is the professional equivalent of moving into ones parents basement, Mack spots an opportunity to make it her own when a television network puts a call out for local designers. Pitching the home renovation TV pilot of her dreamsone with a historic preservation twistmight just be the way to finally prove herself. Still, shell have to do it covertly to avoid her mothers interference.
Just when Mack finds her professional footing, at home she spots an impossibly familiar figure unloading his moving truck into the newly sold house next door. She is furious, floored, and regrettably flustered because Lincoln Kelly is the one who got away. Fifteen years earlier he was a summer romance she inadvertently fell in love with, and when he left, following his dreams to New York, Mack was broken-hearted.
