Katie and Isaiah fall in love at a young age. He's 16 she's 17. He's a Junior she's a Freshman from rival high schools (year a half age gap). Their love can never last with Isaiah enlisting in the marines when he turns eighteen. Isaiah decides to set her free to live her life, making her promise one thing, stay away from Greyson, Katie's over protective, overbearing and abusive childhood best friend. Upon Isaiah's return he realizes that she broke her promise to him in more ways than one.
This is a dual POV small town love story
Trigger Warning: physical and verbal abuse, explicit language, rape, hunting animals, natural disaster, sexual situations, murder.
Leah thought her life had been turned upside down when she ran off with the town bad boy to live at the edge of a dusty county road. But when he leaves for two weeks and a couple of strangers walk into Leah's life, she starts to question everything about the life she chose. Is it possible to undo the mistakes she made in the past? Leah thought she knew the answer, but now she isn't so sure.
This is a story about the blindness of love and infatuation, about the kindness of friends, and the pain of facing truth and reality.
**Blue Rose Awards February 2019 Winner in Romance**