In the 1860s, on Virginia’s Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love, loss, and the cost of buried secrets amid the strife and turmoil of an unimaginable civil war.
2025 FORWARD Indies Book of the Year finalist
In the 1860s, on Virginia’s Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love, loss, and the cost of buried secrets amid the strife and turmoil of an unimaginable civil war.
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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, was 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.
