She built a home out of a foreclosure and her own two hands. She's not about to let a man take it.Della Marsh spent three years learning to take up her own space again. After a marriage that made her feel like the wrong size in her own life, she rebuilt from nothing — a sage-green house on the corner of Holt and Second, a daycare full of other people's kids, a little girl who collects rocks and hands strangers her most precious things. It's small. It's hers. And sh...

Della Vance has spent six years keeping the accounts of her own survival, and the numbers finally balance. A job she's good at. An apartment that's hers. A six-year-old nephew asleep down the hall who trusts her, completely, to have the rest of everything handled. She learned a long time ago what it costs to let a man decide who she gets to be, and she has one unbreakable rule now: no chair left out at her table. No invitations. No risk.Then her car dies on Route 9 in the Tennessee...