Caught between true love and expectations, Only Neva Knows is a tale of true love, struggle, hard choices, and heartaches in a small mountain town in 1920s Appalachia.

Neva always longed for a life beyond the hard-scrabble existence her mama and sister Berthie settled for on Mossback Mountain. Still, as a young widow with three children, she felt forced to move back home to her side of the mountain in Cedar Hollow and face the harsh realities of her situation. Little did she know when she went selling her daddy’s liquor at a nearby logging camp that a chance encounter with her childhood crush, Wilsey Snowe, would blossom into a passionate love affair.

He’s no longer the boy she roamed the hillsides with and left behind. Wilsey grew into a local troublemaker with a chip on his shoulder known for his drinking, gambling, and inability to hold a job. Even when their shared history rekindles a love affair, which subjects her to harsh judgment, scorn, and even pity, she can’t help but long for a life with him by her side.

The star-crossed lovers’ journey to happiness is rife with pitfalls and obstacles. Neva’s older sister catches them in bed together, causing them to separate and hurtling them towards a disastrous outcome. Wilsey’s cousin, a more suitable choice for a husband, enters the scene, tearing Neva between her heart and her family’s expectations.

Neva and Wilsey face their choices as family pressures and inner struggles test their love and devotion. When they each choose to follow their hearts instead of conforming to Berthie’s standards, fate rips apart the future the lovers dreamed of.

Like a log truck on a no-brakes run, you’ll careen with them down the drops and twisting turns of their love until you’re catapulted beside them to their climactic ending.

Hold on tight while this captivating tale of love and social boundaries draws you into their secluded mountain world and ways.