The Marriage They Rebuilt (Second Chance Grovel Marriage #1)

No cheating. No lies. Just a marriage that slowly crumbled from neglect. Will he do the work needed to win his wife back?

For five years, Tara Callahan was the wife who didn’t fit in. A carpenter’s daughter among Manhattan’s elite. A working-class bride among old money society wives. She gave up her building restoration career for Thomas Montgomery’s world. What he did in return was neglect her.

When his mother ruins her brother’s professional reputation, and Thomas promises to quietly make things right after the quarter’s end, Tara reaches her breaking point.

She files for divorce and leaves him for a new job in a different city. She expects Thomas to fight her in court with his army of attorneys. Instead, he follows her to Philadelphia.

The man Tara first fell in love with introduced himself as Tom. The man she married was Thomas, heir to a dynasty. The volunteer on her restoration project is a man somewhere in the middle.

The billionaire who never held a hammer now answers to a South Philly foreman. And the husband who ignored their marriage is learning her language: load paths, timber joints, what it takes to save something about to be demolished.

Tara doesn’t want his help or apologies. But Thomas is determined to prove that Tom is still alive—and he wants his wife back. To do that, he’ll need to show her he’s changed, and that their marriage is a restoration project worth saving.

The grovel isn’t grand gestures this time. It’s showing up. Every day. And putting in the work. The question is: will Tara take Tom back?