About the book

Tara Miller came back to Silver Gap to build a quieter life. The last thing she needs is a man who upends it.

After years spent chasing stories around the world, Tara has finally put down roots at home. She runs a restaurant she loves, leans on the family she nearly lost, and keeps her days busy enough to avoid thinking too hard about the life she left behind. Especially the husband she buried.

She has even less reason to think about Jace Travers. The sheriff’s new deputy is staying next door for the summer, and from the moment he arrives, he throws her carefully ordered world off balance. He’s warm, patient, and far too easy to want. Exactly the kind of man Tara has no business falling for.

But when strange incidents begin to circle her home, it becomes clear someone is searching for something Sean left behind. Suddenly the past Tara has tried so hard to outrun is back, and this time, it may cost her more than memories.

As Jace digs deeper, his protectiveness becomes harder to resist. The more time he spends at Tara’s side, the more impossible it is to ignore the connection growing between them. But opening her heart to him means facing everything she’s spent years trying not to feel.

In a town where everyone knows when something is wrong, Tara and Jace may finally have a shot at something real.

If the secrets closing in on them don’t destroy it first.