Avery
I worked hard for the life I have. Gave up my dreams, my job, my friends… my freedom. In return, I got a successful husband, an idyllic house, and the sweetest child.
The perfect life.
All it took was one blow for everything to turn into nothing. And every blow after that led me to run with my child. I’m bruised and battered, holding myself together by a thread when Rhett Reynolds walks into my life with his kind smile and knowing stare. With every wound he heals, I know he might just be the one to keep me and my baby safe.

Rhett
The moment Avery Summers came into my life, I knew she was everything. Everything I searched for in all the wrong places.
Everything I wanted from all the wrong people.
She is everything I need at the worst time. But nothing I deserve. Avery is unlike any woman I’ve ever known—sweet, smart, strong… and haunted. I know I should keep my distance, but life put her in my path for a reason that I can’t ignore. It doesn’t matter how dangerous it gets. How many blows threaten to shatter the ground we stand on or how far against the tide we run. I’ll endure whatever it takes, sacrifice everything—including my last breath—to protect her and her little girl from the past she’s fighting to escape.