Nell Whitcombe has run Cedar Falls' beloved 1911 Carnegie library for nine years, and she's never once doubted it was worth every ounce of the fight. When a spreading crack in the reading room wall brings in a structural engineer to assess the damage, she braces for the worst news of her professional life.

Nathaniel Pierce has assessed dozens of buildings in eleven years - but never one that reminded him so much of the library stacks he grew up hiding in as a kid. When a cost-cutting council starts eyeing the library's Main Street lot for sale, Nathaniel finds himself fighting for a building instead of just filing the report and moving on.

Saving the library will cost them both something. Some things, they discover, are worth the risk anyway.

Overdue is a heartfelt small-town romance about the buildings - and people - worth fighting to keep. No cheating, no cliffhanger, guaranteed happy ending.