A Safe Place To Land (My Journey Series Book 1)
After turning twenty-one, Maya sets out to find the birth mother who might explain everything. A violent encounter with a mysterious man plunges her into a darker world. He is as haunted as she is-fierce, damaged, terrifyingly tender. Their chemistry is immediate and volatile: refuge that threatens control. As Maya digs into the past, buried secrets fracture her identity and force impossible choices. Trauma refuses neat endings. Love becomes both lifeline and liability-can redemption survive, or will the darkness destroy them both? What will Maya uncover about herself and his past as she tumbles down this dark path? Is he her safe place to land?
Chapter 19 Peek: "Stop being so narrow-minded, dipshit," Danny snapped, voice cutting sharp, anger flaring hot. "No. I forced you to face it so it would possibly show you a different reflection than the one you've become so accustomed to staring at-the pathetic, self-pitying fuck-up who runs from everything. Jacob, you acted like all the things you named-toxic parasite, jealous coward, obsessive freak, the rapist-in-the-making who violated his best friend-but that doesn't have to define you forever. You can change it, but only if you change yourself. Stop wallowing like a victim and own the monster you became." The words hit like punches, harsher than the trail descent, rage in his voice making me flinch. "How?" I choked out, the guilt surging fresh-Maya's horrified face that night, the forced kiss, the violation I'd inflicted in my blackout haze. "How after making such a big mistake? After hurting her like that?"
