From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new secondchance hatetolove romanceScarlet Reed has returned to Polson Falls convinced that twelve years away is long enough to shed her humiliating childhood identity as the town harlots daughter With a teaching job secured and an adorable fixerupper to call home things in her life are finally looking upThat is until she finds out that Shane Beckett lives next doorShane Beckett the handsome and charismatic high school star quarterback who smashed her heart The lying cheating player who was supposed to be long gone living the pro football dream and fooling women into thinking hes Prince Charming Shane Beckett who is as attractive as ever and flashing his dimples at her as if he has done no wrongScarlet makes it abundantly clear that old wounds have not been forgotten Neighbors they may be but friends they most certainly are not She wont allow herself to fall for the single father and firefighter again no matter how many apologies he offers how many times he rushes to her aid or how hard he makes her heart poundBut as she spends more time with him she begins to fear that maybe shes wrong...
