In the Shadows of Chimney Rock (The Blue Ridge Series) (Volume 1)

A touching tale of family and place. An heiress to one of the South's lumber dynasties reaches out to her mountain roots for solace after suffering a life-shattering blow, only to be drawn into the race against time to save the beauty of the Hickory Nut Gorge in Western North Carolina. Against the backdrop of the feverish land grab by developers, and the desperate attempts by local conservancies to stave them off, emerges a moving story of a woman struggling to redeem the legacy of a father she's never known. Hayden Taylor starts to heal in the womb of the gorge and the edgy exhilaration of Asheville, never suspecting the man who killed her father was stalking her. Football legend, Ben Beckham, is looking for redemption too, and tries to earn it working for a local land trust, only to discover he's falling in love with a woman he can't have.