She came to Cedar Woods chasing the story of a lifetime.
He was a gentleman pilot trying to outrun his past.
Journalist and photographer Maggie Carter arrived in Cedar Woods expecting a quiet assignment capturing the charm of small-town life. Festivals, friendly neighbors, and beautiful mountain views should have been simple.
Enter Ethan Cole.
The former Marine pilot ran the town’s small airstrip with discipline and old-fashioned manners. As vice president of his family’s aviation company, Ethan lived by careful routines—and guarded painful memories tied to the plane crash that changed his life forever.
Maggie’s curiosity, chaotic energy, and camera lens begin slipping past the walls he’s spent years building. Between lantern-lit festivals, breathtaking flights above the mountains, and laughter neither of them expected, the grumpy pilot finds himself falling first.
But buried guilt resurfaces. Ethan must decide whether to keep living in the shadow of the past… or trust that the woman who turned his world upside down might also be the one who helps him fly again.
