When progress arrives too fast, a town listens instead.
When a young consultant survives a winter accident on a remote mountain road, the town of Cedar Hollow responds the way it always has: carefully, collectively, and without spectacle.
But what begins as a simple act of care soon reveals deeper fault lines—between speed and patience, profit and place, ambition and belonging.
As outside interests circle a long-untouched mountain above the valley, Cedar Hollow’s residents find themselves tested. Reports are written. Offers are made. Pressure arrives disguised as opportunity. Yet the land remembers what maps do not, and the people who know it best understand that some ground cannot be rushed—and should not be moved at all.
Still Ground is a quiet, powerful novel about listening: to the land beneath our feet, to the communities that hold us, and to the cost of moving too fast in places that demand respect. Set against a winter landscape both beautiful and unforgiving, it tells a story of restraint as resistance—and of a town that chooses to stand, not against change, but for something older, steadier, and worth keeping.
