Sometimes, finding yourself means staying exactly where you are.
Rylan Carter, a thirty-two-year-old ex-paralegal, is starting over. Fleeing her past in Houston, she arrives at the Cedar Hollow Collective in the Texas Hill Country in a faded red Honda Civic with her silent four-year-old son, Bear. The cooperative offers a ninety-day sanctuary for women in transition. For Rylan, it’s supposed to be a temporary pause. But Cedar Hollow has a way of working into the soul.
Surrounded by the comforting scents of warm cedar planks, mesquite smoke, and generations-old cardamom coffee, Rylan and Bear slowly begin to thaw. Bear finds solace in a gentle, blind dog named Bonnie, while Rylan is drawn to Quinn Pierce, a local mechanic harboring a tragic secret from his deployment in Iraq.
As her ninety days draw to a close, Rylan faces a profound choice: return to the life she knew, or forge a new path as the cooperative's first permanent Operations Officer. Ninety Days to Stay by June Wilder is a tender, deeply moving story about the chain of women's hands, the courage to stop running, and the quiet beauty of finally coming home.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Rylan Carter, a thirty-two-year-old ex-paralegal, is starting over. Fleeing her past in Houston, she arrives at the Cedar Hollow Collective in the Texas Hill Country in a faded red Honda Civic with her silent four-year-old son, Bear. The cooperative offers a ninety-day sanctuary for women in transition. For Rylan, it’s supposed to be a temporary pause. But Cedar Hollow has a way of working into the soul.
Surrounded by the comforting scents of warm cedar planks, mesquite smoke, and generations-old cardamom coffee, Rylan and Bear slowly begin to thaw. Bear finds solace in a gentle, blind dog named Bonnie, while Rylan is drawn to Quinn Pierce, a local mechanic harboring a tragic secret from his deployment in Iraq.
As her ninety days draw to a close, Rylan faces a profound choice: return to the life she knew, or forge a new path as the cooperative's first permanent Operations Officer. Ninety Days to Stay by June Wilder is a tender, deeply moving story about the chain of women's hands, the courage to stop running, and the quiet beauty of finally coming home.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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