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Some secrets are meant to stay buried.
Others claw their way back, demanding to be faced.
Elinor Dawn was done with him.
With Kai Xander.
With everything tied to the messy, broken past they shared in that once-perfect circle of friends that shattered like glass.
But when a fire burns her bookstore to the ground and danger comes knocking, the last person she expects to save her is the man who once walked away without explanation.
Now forced under the same roof, Elinor-guarded, scarred, and fiercely self-made-and Kai-ruthless, unreadable, and hiding more than one truth-must confront the very secrets that destroyed them.
Because someone is watching.
Someone knows what they did.
And this time, walking away isn't an option.
In a slowburn spiral of mistrust, desire, and the ghosts of everything they never said, Elinor and Kai must unravel the truth before it consumes them both.
Even if it means facing the one confession they've both been running from:
"I'd rather lose everything, than lose you."