Buy the Land

Sixty-two acres. No house. No power. No water. And one promise.

When former ER nurse Harper Ellison finds a listing for raw land in rural North Carolina, her husband Brice, a contractor's son who knows exactly what land like that costs, already knows where the house will go. Before they close, they make each other two rules: keep the buffer, clearing only what they need so no neighbor's light will ever reach their porch, and do the work with their own hands, calling in help only when the ground or the law says they have to.

Then the ground starts sending bills.

A well that drills deeper than planned. A septic inspector nobody wants. A hundred-year-old oak standing right where the kitchen belongs. A kitten in a hollow log, an old neighbor who walks his property line every morning, and a developer's letter that could put forty porch lights just past their fence.

Buy the Land is the warm, wry first book in the Where the Buffer Holds series, about building something from nothing and what it costs to keep a promise to a piece of land.

Perfect for readers who love clean, heartfelt fiction about marriage, family, hard work, and finding home in the most unexpected places.