Leah Brandt was nineteen when she said yes to Cal Becker. The next morning she was on the first train out of town. Now her father is gone, her corporate career has been "restructured," and Leah is back in Linden Grove, Illinois, with one plan: sell Brandt Hardware, close the doors by December, and leave before anyone asks the wrong questions. There's one problem. Cal still opens the store every morning at six. He knows every bolt in all 412 drawers by feel and which farmers settle their tabs after harvest. And he has no intention of letting her shut down the only hardware store for twenty miles in the middle of the season. The key she left on the counter twenty-six years ago still hangs behind the register, her name on the tag in her father's square capitals. Leah is keeping a secret the whole town is going to take personally, and Cal has spent those same years never asking for what he wants. Some things you only get to cut once. Leah is starting to wonder if hearts are one of them. Measure Twice is a closed-door, later-in-life, second-chance romance with a 45-year-old heroine, a hero who has loved the same woman and the same store for most of his life, and a small Midwestern town in the middle of harvest. Book 1 in the Linden Grove series; each book follows a new couple.