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Back to Blue Holly

Beth Pride

NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST

"Witty, wise, and brimming with romance, Back to Blue Holly is a love letter to community and the irresistible pull of finding where you truly belong. A debut not to be missed!" -Patti Callahan Henry, NYT bestselling author of The Story She Left Behind

Newly divorced and completely burned out, Dottie heads back to Blue Holly-the charming lake town where her family made their best memories. She's hoping for peace and purpose. Instead, she finds a grown-up mountain town with an identity problem and her Aunt Lo packing to leave with a single offer on the table: a crumbling old hardware store with a "fix it up and it's yours" kind of deal.

Dottie doesn't know a wrench from a whisk, has no capital, and even less confidence. But when she stumbles on a forgotten moonshine still in the garage of the Red Arrow, inspiration (and mischief) strike. Maybe Blue Holly doesn't need another hardware store. Maybe what it needs is a brewery.

With the help of a ragtag crew of locals and the unwavering, utterly compelling Crawford Woody, Dottie sets out to transform the Red Arrow hardware store into a small-town haven. But as opposition mounts and secrets rise to the surface, she'll have to decide if she's ready to fight for the town-and future-she's only just discovered.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bethinc.
  • Publish Date: Jan 2nd, 2025
  • Pages: 300
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.67in - 0.97lb
  • EAN: 9798985940312
  • Categories: Romance - ContemporaryWomenSmall Town & Rural

About the Author

Pride, Beth: - Beth Pride is a North Georgia native and an award-winning writer in Lexington, Kentucky, where she lives on a Thoroughbred breeding farm with her husband and thirteen other studs. A rewarding career in education and marketing led Beth in 2021 to begin writing full-time. In 2022, she proudly published The Common Wealth of Kentucky Project with artist Kelly Brewer. Beth's debut novel, Back to Blue Holly, was released on January 2, 2025 and is the winner of a National Indie Excellence Award.

Praise for this book

"It's the rare book that engages readers on multiple levels, but Beth Pride's expertly crafted debut novel, Back to Blue Holly, is riveting from the get-go, with its captivating plot, people, place, and pace. Also? It's somehow both hilarious but serious, romantic yet action-packed, and simultaneously small-town and universal. In short, Back to Blue Holly is, like its protagonist Dottie Hogan, multi-faceted-a gem readers will savor from every angle as they follow Dottie from heartbreak to breakthrough, and from Kentucky to Georgia, where she undergoes an epic rebuilding of herself, her heart, and a beloved local landmark that ultimately unites not just Dottie and the Quinn family, but also the once-divided community at large." -Whitney Collins, award-winning author of Ricky and Other Love Stories and Big Bad

"Beth Pride is a remarkable talent with a voice that leaps off the page. "Back to Blue Holly" is a charming tale of small-town politics, southern roots, and the joy of finding your place in the world. Readers will cheer for this delightful cast of characters, and enjoy every moment of this southern getaway of a novel." -Cynthia Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Starlight Cove series