The Porch Light at Maple House

Leave the porch light on. Love is coming home. When sisters Ruth and Eliza open a faith-filled boarding house on Cedar Lane, they expect leaky faucets, late-night cookie cravings, and a revolving door of guests. They don’t expect Ben Walker—a traveling handyman with a guitar, a broken-down truck, and a promise he’s been running from. Ben offers to trade repairs for a room “just for a few weeks,” but evening devotions on the porch turn strangers into family—and a quiet friendship with Eliza into the kind of slow, steady love that asks a man to put down roots. As Maple House fills with stories in need of mending—a widower learning to cook for one, a nurse between night shifts and new beginnings, a teenager searching for a safe place to land—Eliza and Ben discover that home isn’t a destination; it’s a calling. When a sudden storm and a hard choice threaten what they’re building, they must decide whether to retreat to what’s easy or step forward into what’s eternal. Tender, uplifting, and joyfully clean, The Porch Light at Maple House is a small-town Christian romance about found family, second chances, and a love anchored in prayer. If you long for heartwarming stories with gentle humor, porch-swing conversations, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after—without profanity or steamy content—this is the book you’ve been waiting for.