Piney Woods By His Side (The Piney Woods Saga Book 3)

He has loved her nearly all his life. She has loved him longer than he ever knew.
Some loves find us young. Some wait through years of heartbreak, healing, and roads we were never meant to walk alone.

Angel Gallagher has spent years doing what needs doing.

Raising children. Answering the call. Holding Piney Woods together. Surviving the kind of loss that changes a woman all the way down to her bones. Building a life from whatever grief left behind.

And through every hard mile of it, Ray Bartlett has been right there.

Cowboy. Best friend. Protector.
The steady heart at her side.
The man who catches her when she falls, carries what she cannot, and has loved her nearly all his life without ever demanding more than she could freely give.

Ray has never been gentle with much in this world.

But he has always been careful with Angel.

Careful with her body.
Careful with her healing heart.
Careful not to mistake her need for his right to be loved in return.

Until one emerald dress, one dance, and one long-overdue kiss changes everything.

For the first time, Angel and Ray stop looking backward at all they’ve lost and start looking at each other—and at the life that has been quietly growing around them all along.

But Piney Woods isn’t finished with them yet.

A missing child.
A fireground pushed past its limits.
A house burning hot enough to take everything.
And one impossible leap that leaves Ray face-to-face with a truth he can no longer outrun:

Somewhere along the way, the man who made sure everybody else had a home forgot to believe there could be one for him, too.

Angel knows what it is to lose everything.

Now she has to convince the cowboy she loves that choosing him isn’t betrayal, and loving him doesn’t erase the past. It means finally claiming the future that’s been waiting on both of them for years.

Because love this deep doesn’t always come in grand speeches.

Sometimes it looks like muddy boots by the door.
A hand reaching through the dark.
Children crowded around a table.
A Gathering Fire burning after sundown.

Sometimes it looks like a cowboy who never lets go—

and a Firefly finally brave enough to reach back.

Piney Woods By His Side is Book Three of the Piney Woods Saga, a faith-filled Southern romance about found family, healing, rescue, second chances, and two lifelong hearts discovering that sometimes forever begins the moment you finally reach for the hand that’s been waiting beside you all along.

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He has loved her nearly all his life.
She has loved him longer than either of them ever dared say.

Angel Gallagher and Ray Bartlett have survived grief, raised a herd, answered the call, and built a home from the broken pieces life left behind. But loving someone and choosing forever are not always the same thing.

When danger, family, and old fears bring everything to the surface, one cowboy and one Firefly must decide if they’ll keep guarding their hearts—or place them where they’ve belonged all along.

Some loves wait. Some loves endure. And sometimes forever begins when you finally reach for the hand that never left.