Firefly Hollow

Eastern Kentucky, 1960

Sarah Browning returns home to bury her father. Putting her dreams of being a teacher on hold, she stays and takes a job at the library. Her refuge is a pool of water past the property line, over on Campbell land where nobody will look for her. There’s a friendly but curious deer and enough room to let her grief breathe until she can stand to carry the weight of it.

But Owen Campbell finds her one day, and he tells her to stay on her own side of the line. Devastated, she goes. 

Owen was twelve the first time he shifted. Rejected by his father, he was exiled to the barn like an animal until his uncle rescued him and took him to a place he didn’t have to hide. He refused to return home while his father was alive, only coming back years later when his mother was dying. And every day since, he has made sure no one gets close enough to find out why he lives alone, because a man like him doesn't get to want things. Things like friendship, romance… love. 

Then Sarah Browning shows up—on his land, at the library… in his dreams. And despite himself, Owen starts to wonder if he might get to have more than a solitary existence after all. 

Firefly Hollow is the first book in an Appalachian family saga—three generations of Campbells, the land they keep returning to, and the old mountain magic running quietly underneath it all.