Stardust Valley

Firefly Hollow Generations - Book Two

Sophie allows herself to be convinced to return to Hazard, the only place she can still call home. The only person she still considers family—Eli Campbell—is settling into a new life with a new love in the small town they grew up in. She keeps her head down, does her job for his grandfather Owen, and takes up as little room as possible. She's learned the hard way that being wanted usually turns out to be about being useful. As long as she keeps that in mind, she can manage her expectations.

Noah Campbell is the one thing she can't manage. Ten years after their dramatic break-up, the sight of Eli's brother still knocks the breath out of her. Stubborn, locked into his mistaken beliefs about her, and still the only man who has ever touched her heart. It would be easier if he'd lost his hair and gotten fat. Instead he's more attractive than ever.

Noah has been nursing his own wounds since he was seventeen. Convinced he was played, that none of what they shared was real, he has no idea that the woman he keeps mistaking for cold is walled off for reasons that have nothing to do with him—and that she's as defenseless against him as he is against her.

They're both wrong. About each other, and about what they're actually protecting. And the Campbells—living and otherwise—have never been inclined to leave well enough alone.

Stardust Valley is the second book in the Firefly Hollow Generations series, an Appalachian family saga.