When she married John Campbell—her best friend's brother, the boy she’d adored since before she knew what to call it—it felt less like something she’d been given than something she’d been allowed to borrow. Five years and two sons later, she is still waiting for someone to come collect.
Then she walks in on a coworker kissing John, and the bill comes due.
John Campbell thought finding the right person was the hard part, not the marriage itself. You fall in love, you marry them, you’re happy. He has never once considered that his wife has spent five years waiting for him to leave.
So when he tells her the truth—that his coworker kissed him and not the reverse—he expects her to believe him. She doesn't. And the speed with which she doesn't tells them both something neither wanted to know. The kiss isn't what's wrong with their marriage. It's just the first thing either of them has been willing to look at.
Butterfly Lane is a heartwarming, dual-POV, small-town summer romance, complete with a meddling family with secrets galore—the third book in the Firefly Hollow Essentials series, a Southern family saga set in a universe with Appalachian folk magic running beneath it all. It's an intimate look at a marriage in trouble—and at the two damaged people who decide to give married romance a second chance despite the heartaches.
Content note: This book portrays the loss of a pregnancy, as well as a physically and emotionally abusive parent. Grief is given room in these pages, and it is not resolved quickly.