Finding Forever

When the greatest thing we can build isn’t made of timber and steel. It’s the courage to believe we deserve something beautiful.

Beth Kowalski has spent the last decade being everything everyone else needed her to be. A devoted mother. A reliable friend. The woman who shows up with brownies when things go wrong and stays until they go right.
When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity lands in her lap — managing Sapphire Bay’s new community arts center — Beth’s first instinct is to talk herself out of it. She’s not qualified enough. Not experienced enough. Not enough, full stop.

Dave McGuire has built half of Flathead County with his hands and his word. He doesn’t waste time on things that don’t matter, and he doesn’t say things he doesn’t mean.

When he tells Beth she’s exactly the right person for the job, she’s certain he’s wrong. He’s equally certain she’s the most capable — and most stubborn — woman he’s ever met.

As the arts center takes shape and Sapphire Bay rallies around something new, Beth and Dave find themselves circling each other in the way of two people who recognize something in the other they weren’t expecting to find. But Beth has built a careful life since Jessie died, and careful lives don’t leave much room for the unexpected.

Finding Forever is a warm, tender story about second chances, quiet bravery, and the people who see us more clearly than we see ourselves.