Systems Check, Hearts Connect (Bean There, Done That #9)

A mechanic who reads engines better than people. A musician who performs everything except the truth. Both of them run out of excuses.

Nora Carter is falling apart, and everyone can see it.

Months after losing both her grandfather and the woman she thought she’d build a life with, a viral panic attack brings her sold-out tour to a humiliating end.

She retreats to her hometown with no plan, a dead car, and her grandfather’s guitar, insisting she’s only there to deal with the property he left behind. Morgan Livingston has problems of her own.

She has sixty days to relocate the auto shop she spent eleven years building before a developer tears it down. She intends to handle it the way she handles everything: alone.

But when Nora’s car lands in Morgan’s shop, careful distance gives way to quiet mornings, unexpected honesty, and an attraction neither woman is prepared for.

Morgan sees beneath the version of Nora made for stages, interviews, and strangers with cameras. Nora discovers what it feels like to be with someone who expects no performance at all.

As both women face losing the lives they thought were theirs, they begin to build something neither expected: a place where Nora doesn’t have to perform, and Morgan doesn’t have to carry everything alone.