Murky Pond

Lily Campbell has been in love with Warren Sullivan since she was old enough to know the difference between a crush and the real thing. She never said a word. Being his best friend was enough—right up until the night it wasn't.

Then she ran. A year overseas, a year of unanswered calls, a year of telling herself she'd spared them both.

Warren doesn't care about her reasons. He spent that year furious—not because she left his bed, but because she cut him out of her life like he'd never mattered. He's got a cold shoulder ready and waiting. It lasts about five minutes.

She's certain she'll always be second to the wife he lost. It's never once crossed his mind that she'd think so. And he's got his own choice to make: risk loving someone again, or keep himself safe and walk away.

Murky Pond is the third book in the Firefly Hollow Generations series, an Appalachian family saga.