The Last Stop on Mill Row

Maggie Lisowski runs the school buses in Aberly, Pennsylvania. When a driver quits days before the first day of school, she climbs behind the wheel of Bus 7 herself, and halfway down the route sheet she finds two names she knows by heart: her grandchildren, listed at a new address. 14 Mill Row. The home of Leo Ferrante, the slate roofer she has politely disliked for twelve years.

Her son’s marriage is over, and no one thought to tell her.

Now Maggie and Leo, two stubborn grandparents on opposite sides of a custody fight, have to share a calendar, a kitchen table, and two children who need them both. What begins as a truce becomes a friendship, and then something neither of them expected to feel again.

But Maggie is keeping a secret about one October night, and keeping it may cost her everything she is trying to protect: her son, her grandchildren, and the man who has finally given her a reason to stop covering for everyone.

Warm, honest, and quietly funny, The Last Stop on Mill Row is a novel about family loyalty, late love, and the courage to tell the truth when it’s your own child on the line. Book One of The Penrose Street Stories. Each novel stands alone.