Being mayor of a tiny mountain town isn’t glamorous. But it gives me just enough distraction to avoid thinking about him.

Cody Barone. My first love. My worst heartbreak.

The boy who vanished without a word and returned as a man I barely fierce, magnetic, cloaked in secrets—and just as wild-eyed and heartbreakingly beautiful as the day he left.

He says he needs my help. But when his eyes meet mine, it’s not business he’s thinking about.

He awakens every ache I thought I outgrew, every what-if I forced myself to forget.

We were young and carefree once. Now we’re older, more broken, more guarded... and somehow still burning for each other.

But I already lived through the fallout of loving him. Can I survive what comes next?