Some promises are made to protect the past.Others are made to survive it.Clara Whitmore has built a career saving beautiful things on the brink of collapse. As a wedding planner, she knows how to restore order, elegance, and calm-without ever staying long enough to get attached.Magnolia Hollow was supposed to be just another job.But the historic Charleston estate she's hired to manage is bound by a generations-old family oath-one that has kept its guarded heir, Beau Middleton, trapped between loyalty and longing for far too long.Beau has spent his life honoring a promise he never made, believing duty means sacrifice and love comes second. Letting Clara in threatens everything he's sworn to protect: the land, his family legacy, and the quiet penance he calls responsibility.As weddings bring life back to Magnolia Hollow, cracks begin to form-in the house, in the oath, and in Beau's carefully controlled world. When choosing love means risking the only home he's ever known, Beau must decide whether honoring the past is worth losing the future.Set among moss-draped oaks, tidal marshes, and Charleston's storied streets, The Magnolia Oath is a slow-burn Southern romance about legacy, courage, and the kind of love that doesn't ask you to disappear to prove it.Because some homes don't need preserving.They need forgiving.