First published 2014
Dylan McBride returns to Fallbrook as the new sheriff, seeking answers about Jessie Thompson's mysterious disappearance eight years ago. He believed she died after her violent father's attack drove her from town. Jessie fled that night after nearly losing her life, swearing never to come back. Her father's death forces her return, and she walks straight into Dylan, the boy who abandoned her and broke her heart. Dylan stares at the woman he mourned for nearly a decade. The attraction between them flares immediately, but both carry wounds from their shared past. Dylan wants the truth about what happened that terrible night. Jessie guards secrets she cannot reveal to anyone, especially him. Their reunion stirs up old feelings and new complications as they navigate the wreckage of their former lives. Both must decide whether love can survive the lies and pain that drove them apart.
Genres: romance, suspense, mystery, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Fallbrook
Period: Eight Years Ago
416 pages · Unknown Binding · Avon Impulse
Content warnings: abuse, violence