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The Long Way Home
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ISBN13: 9798190058406
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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
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
a peace with him. 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
a Tuesday morning in mid-January, home after ten years. She
walks out without her coffee. 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
the truth was never Ruby's to be protected from. It was hers to know. 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
standalone. For readers of Carley Fortune, Emily Henry, and
Elsie Silver. Read free in Kindle Unlimited.
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
a peace with him. 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
a Tuesday morning in mid-January, home after ten years. She
walks out without her coffee. 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
the truth was never Ruby's to be protected from. It was hers to know. 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
standalone. For readers of Carley Fortune, Emily Henry, and
Elsie Silver. Read free in Kindle Unlimited.
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