by Nora Roberts
First published 2019
Zane Bigelow grew up in a picture-perfect house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. His father was a successful surgeon, his mother stylish and social. They attended ballet recitals and baseball games like model parents. But behind closed doors, Zane and his sister knew the brutal reality. One violent night shattered the facade completely. Zane fled for college and never looked back. Now, years later, he returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place he once loved. He meets Darby, a talented landscape artist carrying her own painful secrets. She understands what it means to run from the past. Together, Zane and Darby must learn to confront their demons and protect the people who matter most to them.
Genres: romance, domestic-fiction, contemporary, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, second-chance-romance
Setting: North Carolina, Blue Ridge Mountains
Period: Contemporary
448 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: abuse, domestic-violence, mental-illness