Before the ranch. Before the family everyone thinks they know.
Evelyn Clarke was never supposed to run Redbud Ridge. That was her brothers' inheritance, until a blown tire on a trailer on a two-lane highway made it hers.
She built a life and a family there anyway; married to Sterling, she believed grief was something you survived once and then got to leave behind. She was wrong. It came back for her son, three years old and gone within the minutes it took his father to look away, and it never really left after that.
What Evelyn never expected was how far Sterling would go to outrun his own grief, where he'd go, and who he'd become there. By the time she found out, she was five months pregnant, and faced with a decision that had nothing to do with forgiveness and everything to do with what she was willing to protect.
Redbud Ridge: Legacy is the story Evelyn Clarke never told her children; the year that molded her into the woman they think they know, and the secret she carried for twenty-eight years.
A dual-POV prequel novella, and the origin story behind the family at the heart of Redbud Ridge: Fractured.
Content note: this story includes the death of a child and marital infidelity. These events are treated with care, but they are central to the story, not incidental to it. If either of these is difficult territory for you, please take care of yourself first.
Genre: Romance
Evelyn Clarke was never supposed to run Redbud Ridge. That was her brothers' inheritance, until a blown tire on a trailer on a two-lane highway made it hers.
She built a life and a family there anyway; married to Sterling, she believed grief was something you survived once and then got to leave behind. She was wrong. It came back for her son, three years old and gone within the minutes it took his father to look away, and it never really left after that.
What Evelyn never expected was how far Sterling would go to outrun his own grief, where he'd go, and who he'd become there. By the time she found out, she was five months pregnant, and faced with a decision that had nothing to do with forgiveness and everything to do with what she was willing to protect.
Redbud Ridge: Legacy is the story Evelyn Clarke never told her children; the year that molded her into the woman they think they know, and the secret she carried for twenty-eight years.
A dual-POV prequel novella, and the origin story behind the family at the heart of Redbud Ridge: Fractured.
Content note: this story includes the death of a child and marital infidelity. These events are treated with care, but they are central to the story, not incidental to it. If either of these is difficult territory for you, please take care of yourself first.
Genre: Romance
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