I left town the night after prom to escape my abusive father and a future that felt like a life sentence.
I never meant to leave her behind.

Years later, I come back a billionaire—to bury the man who made my childhood hell and to sell the family farm that’s been in my name for generations.

What I don’t expect is her.
Stronger. Guarded. Still devastatingly beautiful.

And a five-year-old boy with my eyes.

She says she tried to find me. I believe her.
She says she didn’t tell me because I disappeared. She’s right.
But knowing I missed my son’s entire life doesn’t make it hurt any less.

Now I’m stuck in the town I swore I’d never return to, forced to face the woman I never stopped loving—while a wealthy local real estate agent circles her and the land that once belonged to my family.

I left to survive.
She stayed to protect the people she loved.
And somewhere between the past we broke and the family I never knew I had, I have to decide what matters more—my fortune, or the home I walked away from.

A deeply emotional second-chance romance about first love, secret babies, and coming home when it matters most.