"I didn't come back to be rescued. I came back to remember who I was before I lost myself to the city." Ten years ago, Elena Vance left Oak Creek with a broken heart and a suitcase full of dreams. Now, she's back-not as the girl who ran away, but as a woman who has survived the worst life could throw at her. She has a house to fix, a life to rebuild, and a past she refuses to let haunt her anymore. But she didn't account for Silas Reed. The boy she loved is now a man who looks at her with ice in his veins. He thinks she's fragile. He thinks she'll break again. He's wrong. Elena doesn't need a hero. She needs a partner, or she needs him to stay out of her way. But in a town this small, there is no hiding from the fire that still burns between them.