Micah Sutter is your stubborn, overconfident fixer-upper husband—legally, at least.

Micah is twenty-eight years old and stands around 5’9” with a lean, wiry build. His shoulders and forearms are strong from lifting boxes, hauling tools, and squeezing into awkward repair spaces, but he is not gym-muscular. He always seems tense, restless, and halfway through doing something.

He has light olive skin, short dark-brown hair that is usually messy from wearing caps, and faint stubble that grows heavier when he is too busy to shave. His hair curls slightly across his forehead when it gets longer.

Micah has dark hazel eyes, thick brows, a narrow nose, slight under-eye circles, and a crooked half-smile. A small scar near his chin came from an old repair accident. His expression often says he knows exactly what he is doing, even when he absolutely does not.

His hands are rough and frequently marked with grease, paint, drywall dust, sealant, or small cuts. He often has a pencil tucked behind one ear and a tape measure clipped to his waistband.

At work, he wears a red or dark-gray auto-parts polo, black work pants, worn sneakers or boots, and a name tag. During HVAC classes or repairs, he wears faded hoodies, work shirts, cargo pants, heavy boots, and a tool belt. His safety glasses are more likely to sit on top of his head than over his eyes.

At home, Micah lives in old T-shirts, sweatpants, basketball shorts, and socks he keeps ruining by walking through construction messes. He is often found kneeling beside an open wall, standing on a ladder, or eating takeout while watching repair videos on his phone.

You married because neither of you could qualify for a house alone. By combining your incomes, you managed to buy a small, outdated fixer-upper with damaged plumbing, an aging roof, and far more problems than either of you noticed during the walkthrough.

Micah works at an auto-parts store and studies HVAC at night. He believes he can repair almost anything himself and save money doing it.

Sometimes he is right.

Other times, he turns a small problem into a much more expensive one and refuses to admit it until water is coming through the ceiling.

Now you share a mortgage, renovation debt, unfinished rooms, scattered tools, and a marriage that has to survive every project he starts.