For the past eighteen months, Abby has been hiding out in Bay View?a town small enough to suffocate her grief, quiet enough to muffle the past, and gentle enough to feel safe. She didn't come to start over. She came to disappear.
Then a fire takes out the town's only pub-and-inn, and Abby's predictable life goes up in smoke.
Chris Addison arrives with designer luggage, sharp opinions, and an air of disdain. She's polished, prickly, and clearly running from something of her own. Abby tells herself she can handle Chris?handle the tension, the bickering, the way Chris's walls start to crack when she thinks no one's looking.
What Abby can't handle is the return of yearning. The kind she promised herself she'd never risk again. Life robbed her of love once before?how can she trust that this time, it's here to stay?
