A devastating industrial accident leaves Brandon Shove at a crossroads in his life. Although truth be told, it wasn't solely the accident that brought him here. It was the drugs. The alcohol, and hell. Who was he kidding? He has been charting this course since he was sixteen.
This is the end of the line for him. He has no place else to go. Except one last visit home before he drives himself across the next state and into the ocean to end it all. For good. Hell of a time for the sweetly hot, sexier than hell Melissa Trainor to be standing on her porch. His very own judge and jury.
He deserves her wrath. Her disdain. What he did to her was dispicable.
So why, when he wants to end it all, is she giving him a reason to live? And maybe, just maybe, a second chance at love.
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A rape by a co-worker destroyed Melissa Trainor's life. And her career. The unreported, heinous crime committed by the man she loved. But he wasn't the first man to break her heart. Destroy her dreams.
Oh, no. That honor went to Brandon Shove, The original Badass of Vermin County.
The boy who'd been her childhood nemesis. The teenage boy who'd fueled her wildest dreams. The man who'd asked to marry her before abruptly leaving, breaking her heart.
And he's back. Still able to fuel dreams she throught long-ago decimated. And he's offering her forever.
But she's harboring that damn secret.
The one that will surely destory their future. If she reveals it. But the one that can't be kept, if they are to have a second chance at love.