Home Between the Pines

At fifteen, Wren Dawson gave birth to her daughter, Lily.

At fourteen, Ivy Monroe became a mother to her son, Noah.

They met not because of school or mutual friends, but in a support group for pregnant and parenting teens. Both were scared, overwhelmed, and carrying more responsibility than anyone their age should have. They quickly realized they understood each other in a way no one else could.

Over the years, they became each other's family.

When one couldn't afford rent alone, they found a tiny farmhouse together in the mountain town of Pine Ridge.

When one worked late, the other picked up both kids from daycare.

Birthdays, school concerts, scraped knees, fevers, homework, heartbreaks-they faced it all together.

Now, nearly a decade later, they're twenty-four and twenty-three, and while neither woman ever imagined life would look like this, they wouldn't trade the family they've built.

The farmhouse is loud, lived in, and full of love.

Lily and Noah bicker like siblings, defend each other like siblings, and genuinely think they share two moms.

The entire town assumes Wren and Ivy are sisters-or already married.

They've never bothered correcting anyone.

Then summer arrives.

Asher Hayes, a professional hockey player recovering from a shoulder injury, rents the cabin next door to escape the spotlight before training camp begins.

With him is Finnegan "Finn" Markos, his longtime best friend and boyfriend. After a career-ending injury cut short Finn's own hockey career, he became a sports psychologist and now travels with Asher whenever he can. Their relationship is steady, affectionate, and built on years of choosing each other through every high and low.

They come to Pine Ridge expecting peace and privacy.

Instead, they find themselves drawn into the organized chaos next door.