Julia Grace Baker left Autumn Ridge broken, desperate to outrun a grief too heavy to bear. Fifteen years later, she’s a successful architect and editor for Blueprint & Beam, a national builder magazine featuring custom home plans. Meticulous, driven, and fiercely in control, Julia has made a career of designing perfect homes—while quietly avoiding the mess of her own. After a broken engagement, she makes an uncharacteristically bold move: buying Leaky Acres, a farm that still holds traces of home. The impulsive purchase feels like a lifeline—a remote remodel project that could make the next farmhouse edition unforgettable, and give her the space to finally breathe.

But Leaky Acres holds more than just rustic charm. It holds memories—of childhood laughter, lost dreams, and Griffin Ellis, her first love and the one person who ever truly saw her. Quiet, loyal, and deeply rooted, Griffin never left Autumn Ridge. His steadfast, sacrificial love for Julia has endured in silence—sustained by an unshakable faith in God and a hope he’s never fully let go of.

As old wounds resurface and the spark between them rekindles, Julia is torn between the carefully curated life she’s built and the roots she thought she’d buried. Together, she and Griffin must confront the past they’ve never truly faced—and Julia must ask the hardest question of all: What if everything she thought she needed was already waiting for her back home?

Already Waiting will appeal to readers who love the heartfelt authenticity of Abby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist and the slow-burn emotional payoff of Lucy Score’s Things We Never Got Over. Told in dual POV, the novel invites readers into a story of homecoming—not just to a small town, but to first loves, childhood dreams, and the quiet strength of enduring faith.