<p><b>A best friends-to-lovers, stand-alone romance from New York Times Bestselling Author, A.L. Jackson...</b></p><p>Evan Bryant wasn't your typical hero. <br>But he was mine. <br>Broken by the worlds’ standards, he was still the strongest boy I would ever know. <br>My best friend. The boy I’d given everything to. My heart, my body, and the promise of forever.<br>The day I’d needed him most, he walked away. <br>He left me shattered and questioning the love I’d thought we’d shared. </p><p>Three years later, I wasn’t prepared for him to return to Gingham Lakes.<br>It wouldn’t have mattered if he wasn’t the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. <br>My fingers still would have ached to caress his skin. <br>My body still would have begged to get lost in his touch. <br>And my heart . . . it would have always sung his name. <br>But time changes things. With it, secrets that could ruin everything.  <br>Can we find a way to love again, or have the fears of our past stolen the hope of our forever . . .<br></p>