First published 2025
Eve Ambroise's career as a playwright is ascending, but everything else crumbles around her. She ends her engagement, severs ties with her parents, and escapes to a Tennessee mountain town. She tells everyone she's there for a writing retreat, but the truth is messier. Her neighbor Jamie Gallagher has his own complications. He's rebuilding his life after a bitter custody fight, learning to be a single father while spending more time at his mountain cabin. When Eve and Jamie meet, neither wants romantic entanglements. Jamie worries about disrupting his family's fragile new balance. Eve carries wounds from losing people she loved. Their initial attraction develops into something deeper, but Eve's instinct is to run when relationships become serious. The Tennessee mountains surround them with fireflies and possibilities. Both must decide whether to trust their hearts despite their fears.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, healing, intimate, introspective, lyrical
Tropes: emotional-healing, forced-proximity, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
Setting: Tennessee, Tennessee mountains
448 pages · Paperback · Berkley