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You won’t be able to put it down!

— Adriana Trigiani

coming 6.10.2025

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Coming 6.10.25

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“The liveliest, most interesting and compulsively readable historical novel I have seen in many a year—I love this book!”

— Lee Smith, award-winning author of Silver Alert and Dimestore

“An Appalachian love story with glorious twists and turns…you won't be able to put it down!”

— Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone

“A historical novel of exquisite storytelling, with an ear tuned to the voices of mountain people.”

— Amy D. Clark, host of The Talking Appalachian Podcast

"A superior work of Southern Appalachian fiction… a heartfelt historical tale of a people and their place that resonates long after the last page is turned."

— Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot

About Hurricane Helene.

IT'S DIFFICULT TO WRITE about the destruction of Hurricane Helene and at the same time, it's impossible not to. So many people—so many of you, quite frankly—reached out with concern and love and prayers, knowing how deeply we love our sweet getaway in Western North...

Letting go.

IT'S ALL possibility, that blank spread before you, the pages waiting, willing, wondering what the future holds. So many options. So much freedom! It's a journal, after all, a private space meant for play and experimentation, the stakes so low as to encourage...

Joy in flight!

WE WERE SITTING on the big back deck, looking at the mountains, the early June day having reached that magic time of diminishing heat and lingering softness. There was so much to see. The rhododendron was bursting forth in vivid color, and the wild azaleas seemed to...

Cathy Rigg

Cathy Rigg is an author and maker with far more interests than she has time. Born and raised in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, her debut novel, That Which Binds Us, will be published by Keylight Books in June of 2025. A work of historical fiction, the story is set in those beloved mountains and centers around five people whose lives intersect during the tumultuous years of the Civil War.