Muddy Bottom (Palmetto Island Book 1)

A runaway husband. A surprise pregnancy. A mother-daughter bond on the brink.Birdie Fuller’s new year begins with a gut punch—her husband has vanished, draining their bank accounts and leaving her to face their daughter’s unplanned pregnancy alone. Birdie begs Hannah to end it. Hannah refuses.Back at college for her final semester, Hannah hides her pregnancy from friends and her ex while chasing job offers that could take her far from home—and her mother.When she returns to Palmetto Island to await the baby’s birth, tempers flare inside the cramped apartment they’re forced to share above a local bakery. With old wounds reopening and patience running thin, mother and daughter must confront the truths they’ve avoided for years.Can they find their way back to each other…or will this be the break they never recover from?Muddy Bottom is the deeply moving first installment in the Palmetto Island series—a celebration of messy love, fierce women, and the power of second chances.