Years after a surprise pregnancy derailed her as a teenager, Sage McKnight has landed on her feet thanks largely to her parents, who stepped in to raise her baby when she could not. Now an ambitious young architect working at her father’s firm, she’s taking on her most challenging and intriguing client in Mason Tucker—a former pro baseball player still healing from physical and emotional scars after a helicopter crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad.   At first simply wary of Sage and her open, cheerful demeanor, Mason can’t deny the skill she brings to his project, or the pull he feels when he’s with her. But everyone’s past is an open book in Hope’s Crossing, and once he learns the circumstances about Sage and her son, the echoes of his own bitterly unhappy childhood resurface, making him even more determined not to let anyone breach the defenses he’s been guarding.   Still, between Sage’s gift