Back to the Start

by Avery Winslow

The Second Time Around · Book 4

She waited in her wedding dress for hours while Liam Brennan never showed. No call, no text, no explanation. Just silence. So she did what any heartbroken woman would do. She packed her life into her car and disappeared, building a new life two thousand miles away where no one knew she'd been abandoned on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Now she's back in her hometown to settle her mother's estate, determined to avoid the man who destroyed her faith in love. But when an injured dog appears on her porch, she's forced to call the only veterinarian in town. The moment Liam Brennan walks through her door, twelve years of carefully constructed walls begin to crumble. Then he tells her the truth: he never ghosted her. He didn't make it to their wedding because he was in a coma. Twelve years of hating a man who was fighting for his life. Twelve years of running from a love that never actually betrayed her. Now Ruby has to decide if the truth is enough to heal them both, or if some heartbreaks are too deep to survive, even when no one was to blame.

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