The Long Way Home

Ten years ago, Caleb Crawford left Ruby Patton two weeks before their wedding. No explanation. No forwarding address. He never came back. Until now. Ruby has spent a decade building a life around the wound he left. She is an eighth-generation Black Appalachian potter, running Bayard Pottery on the ground floor of the Cove Works - the same wheel her grandmother Daisy taught her on, the same small mountain town where every neighbor watched her stay behind. She has made a peace with never knowing why he left. She has not made >Caleb has been a paramedic in Boise for ten years and a stranger in his own family for longer. His mother is dying at the Mill House Inn. His younger brother finally called him home. There is a truth he has been carrying alone for a decade - the truth about why he really left - and the woman he owes it to is standing behind the counter at Vega's Panaderia when he walks in on >She >For four weeks, they share the same small mountain town while his mother slips away. Every accidental encounter is watched by half the cove. Every silence carries ten years of unanswered questions. And through the grief of a mother's last winter, Ruby's grandmother - who has suspected the truth all along - finally decides she has waited long enough for Caleb to speak. Because > She kisses him under the porch light in the falling February snow, both of them crying, both of them saying the ten Christmases they missed. It is not the same bridge they used to walk. But it is the same place. The third book in the Fox Cove series - a tender, slow-burn second-chance romance set in the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina. Interracial contemporary women's fiction about coming home, grief, family secrets, and the long way back to someone you never stopped loving. Reads as a >For readers of Carley Fortune, Emily Henry, and >Read free in Kindle Unlimited.