Growing up in the shadow of West Virginia’s Eden Mountain, Aziraphale Wright always expected to work for the family coal mining company. Anthony Crowley, the son of a down-and-out miner, was going to become a pilot and leave town forever. Now, thirty years later, neither of their lives have gone as planned, and an unexpected inheritance brings them back into one another’s orbit. Aziraphale hopes that they can move beyond their shared past, and a high school arrangement that ended in disaster, but he has secrets of his own that threaten their fragile reconnection…
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This fic is now completely finished!
Thank you to everyone who has been following the fic, I have loved writing it. Thanks especially to @antikate for her amazing work as a beta and @mintly for making this lovely cover image.
It’s a bit emotional to finish something that was such a big and important project for me! I am now going to stand in a river and fail at catching fish and think of nothing for a very long time.