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Now in Savannah with her mother, six hundred miles from Kentucky, Kathy has become an expert at pretending she's fine. Lost in a fog of grief and guilt, she is forced to decide if she is strong enough to keep going. Recovery feels like a job she isn't qualified to take on, but giving up would destroy the few people she has left to love.
Charles Kelly knows the cost of silence. Raised among people who bury their pain to keep the surface smooth, he recognizes what Kathy is going through the moment he meets her on the beach—his own father made that final choice, and his family called it an accident.
What starts as one man refusing to look away deepens into a connection neither expected and neither feels they have earned. But moving forward means facing an agonizing question: is allowing herself to be happy a betrayal of the children she couldn't save?
Set in 1960s Savannah, Kathy is the second book in the Firefly Hollow Essentials series, an Appalachian Southern family saga that spans generations. Told in dual POV, it's a heartwarming slow-burn romance between a woman rebuilding her life after unimaginable loss and the man who falls first—a story of healing against all the odds, supported by a well-meaning, meddling family.
Content note: This book deals frankly with the aftermath of domestic violence, child loss, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation. Kathy's recovery is the story; her trauma is not depicted for effect, but it is not softened.
