maxwellash14
Some places never let you go.
After three years of chasing light across deserts, coastlines, and foreign streets, Harper Lane comes home to take a break. Just a season. Just long enough to breathe.
She tells herself she doesn't belong here anymore.
But the land remembers.
So does Cade Mercer.
Quiet. Controlled. Untouchable. Cade works the woods and private acreage that wrap around their small town. He understands boundaries. Property lines. Territory.
And Harper just crossed one.
The girl who once wandered into his woods with a camera is back - older, sharper, harder to read. She says she's only staying temporarily.
Cade doesn't believe her.
Because the way she looks at the land hasn't changed.
And neither has the way he looks at her.
In a town where nothing is forgotten and lines aren't meant to be crossed, Harper and Cade will have to decide:
Are some places meant to be escaped...
Or claimed?