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Wildfires and Wanderlust: A Whisper Creek Novel
Paperback
Series: Whisper Creek, Book 7
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Safety is easy to recognize.
Risk is harder to measure.
Cassidy Holt has built a life that works.
She teaches math at the local high school. She knows the rhythms of Whisper Creek by heart. Her days are predictable, stable, and carefully balanced-exactly the way she likes them.
Then Avery Doyle arrives.
Avery travels for work, moving easily between towns and timelines, comfortable with motion in a way Cassidy has never needed to be. Their connection is immediate but unforced-something real that fits neatly into the space Avery occupies while she's there.
Until it doesn't.
As Avery comes and goes, Cassidy begins to notice what safety costs when it becomes default-and how distance, even when expected, can quietly demand justification. What begins as a manageable arrangement becomes a question Cassidy can't solve with numbers alone.
Wildfires and Wanderlust is a quiet, emotionally grounded novel about negotiating safety and risk, about relationships that don't fail but still ask something difficult of the people inside them.
This is not a story about choosing between staying and leaving.
It's a story about learning when effort becomes misalignment-and when love's purpose is not to last, but to clarify.
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