Some lines were never meant to be crossed. Some people were never meant to be this hard to resist.
Cassidy Monroe has spent two years perfecting the art of fine.
Fine when Derek raises his voice. Fine when his hands leave marks she photographs quietly and files away.
Fine when she checks the door lock twice every night and cannot remember when she started doing that. Fine is the word she gives Jamie at the clinic.
Fine is what she tells Tamara over tea in the safest room in Hallow Creek. Fine is the story she has told so many times it almost fits.
Then his brother comes home.
Cole Calloway left this town at eighteen and came back at thirty-one with a Navy SEAL record, a bullet wound he has been lying about for fourteen months, and a code he has spent his whole life honouring.
The code is simple: do not want what belongs to someone else.
The problem is he has wanted her since a bonfire three years ago.
The problem is she has wanted him since exactly the same moment.
The problem is she is Derek's girlfriend and Cole is Derek's brother and Hallow Creek is the kind of town that tells stories about people forever, and Tamara has already warned her what that story looks like.
So Cole holds the line.
And Cassidy manages the distance.
And Derek gets worse.
Until the night Cole comes through a front door in four seconds flat and the line he has been holding for eight weeks meets something it was never built to hold — and everything breaks open at once.
This is not a love story about falling. It is a love story about finally standing up.
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