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Back To Ember Ridge: A Class Reunion, Found Family, Southern Small-Town Romance
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
Publisher: Coins and Connections (R)
Published: Dec 14 2026
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twenty years after graduation, the Class of 2005 is coming home to Ember Ridge. Not one of them is ready for what's waiting.
Kena Sinclair-Ashford never left. For two decades she has been the steady one. She answers the phone at midnight and still shows up when she can. Now the girls who scattered to Los Angeles and the military are flying back to the mountains of western North Carolina for one June weekend. Kena has a story she has never told them. Part of it is about her marriage. Part of it is about them.
The Los Angeles six bring husbands, wives, babies and a few truths of their own. Katie has to walk into the church where her mother still holds court. Becca is cooking for 180 people in her hometown. Her wife Lisa, adopted as an infant, keeps hearing that she looks like somebody.
On the Ridge side, Qwetta meets a man from Charleston who isn't trying to be seen. Tish has to face what she's been keeping in a separate file for years. And Deacon Ashford, who raised Chloe as his own, has to stand back while she spends time with the career soldier who fathered her.
A Friday night at Club 12. A cookout on Lake Ember. A banquet that goes off script. Sunday service at Mt. Olive. Nine women find out what twenty years of distance cost them, and what home still holds for them.
Back to Ember Ridge is Book 10 of Journeys of the Heart and the bridge into the Ember Ridge Universe. New readers can start right here.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Sisterhood and found family
- Second-chance marriage
- Small-town Southern homecomings
- Grown, messy love between strong, successful Black women and the people who love them
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