Griffin Cole has spent twenty years getting very good at leaving. At forty-one, the Atlanta-based airline captain has built the perfect life for a man who never plans too far ahead: a clean condo, a packed flight bag, a long list of cities, and absolutely nobody waiting for him to come home. Then a blonde stranger throws coffee on him aboard the Plane Train at Hartsfield-Jackson. Sophie Bennett is twenty-nine, ambitious, fiercely independent, and very good at turning complicated problems into orderly plans. She has spent eleven years building a career in corporate strategy, and when an opportunity in Milan finally puts everything she has worked for within reach, she has no intention of letting romance interfere. There is only one problem. Griffin. After an impulsive lie about what he does for a living, Griffin keeps finding reasons not to correct it. And Atlanta keeps throwing the two of them together: coffee shops, Piedmont Park, BeltLine evenings, summer storms, family dinners, and enough accidental intimacy to make two people who specialize in keeping their lives under control increasingly bad at it. But Sophie is preparing to cross an ocean. Griffin is carrying a truth that gets heavier every day. And sooner or later, every departure becomes a decision. Funny, romantic, and grounded in the rhythms of modern Atlanta, HEARTS-FIELD is a Southern contemporary romance about ambition, honesty, inconvenient timing, and discovering that sometimes the hardest part of leaving is realizing you finally have somewhere you want to return to.
