Cattail Ridge

Firefly Hollow Essentials - Book Five

Archer came to Hazard for a fresh start—new town, new job, room to breathe after a marriage that nearly cost him everything. He didn't expect to end up part of the Campbell family within the year. He didn't expect to fall for Emma either. She was seven months pregnant when he met her, guarded and a little fierce, and he drove her to the hospital the day Sydney was born. He's loved them both quietly ever since, uncertain if he will ever be brave enough to tell Emma the truth about how he feels.

Emma isn't looking for love. She's raising her daughter and running her studio, still carrying what the last man who claimed to love her did to them both. But Archer is different—patient, steady, the kind of good she stopped believing existed—and somewhere in the ordinary rhythm of years spent as friends, what she feels for him stops being simple. It starts keeping her up at night.

Then a scare with Sydney knocks Emma's guard down completely—and the fear that erupts as anger, aimed straight at Archer, is something she can't take back.

Now they both have to figure out if what they've built—and quietly wanted—can survive it, and whether Emma is brave enough to trust it.

Cattail Ridge is the fifth book in the Firefly Hollow series, an Appalachian family saga.