New Beginnings: Book 1 of the Violet Vale Series by Jessica Northwood

She left home chasing a future. Now she’s back—face to face with the past she never truly escaped.

When Violet Vale’s promising literary career implodes in spectacular fashion, she has nowhere left to go but home. Willow Haven, with its winding trails and whispered regrets, is the last place she ever wanted to return to. Especially not to the house where her mother’s silence speaks louder than words. Especially not to Caleb Mason—the steady, stubborn firefighter who was once her best friend… and almost more.

But as Violet unpacks the boxes of her former life, she begins to uncover more than just old journals and unsent letters. The quiet town holds pieces of herself she’d long buried—and feelings she thought she’d outgrown.

When a small-town book fair forces Violet and Caleb into each other’s orbit again, sparks fly, secrets unravel, and Violet finds herself questioning not just where she belongs, but who she is when she’s not running.

Heartfelt, slow-burning, and beautifully honest, New Beginnings is the first book in a sweeping series about the women we become, the love we leave behind, and the courage it takes to come home to ourselves.