I had a five-year plan. She ruined it with a single kiss.
A slow-burn, second-chance beach romance.
The Coast Guard was supposed to be my future—discipline, duty, and the men who had become my brothers.
Then Ava Abrams crashes into my life.
She’s a reckless, free-spirited musician with a voice that steals the air from my chest and a past she refuses to talk about.
She needs a safe place to land, and I can’t turn her away, even if keeping my distance would be smarter.
One kiss changes everything.
Suddenly, protecting Ava matters more than the life I planned.
When the past she tried to escape catches up to her, she runs.
Four years later, I walk into a bar and hear a voice I know instantly. Ava.
The girl who broke my heart. The woman I never stopped loving.
But the past that drove her away is still waiting.
And loving her this time might destroy us both.
Book one in the interconnected Anchor Novels series—heartfelt, forced-proximity romances about military brothers, found family, and love that leads you home
