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.
**𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄!**
After losing her mother to cancer, Meredith packed her most prized belongings and her necessities, loaded up her service dog Max, and took off on a cross-country trip.
And ended up settling in a small town in Tennessee.
Chase - the local sheriff - is head over heels for her the moment their eyes meet.
But Meredith is guarded. After a tragic night changed her life forever, left her with almost crippling anxiety, she doesn't trust easily.
Yet, she can't say no to the sheriff.
But is he enough to protect her when her past comes crashing back into her life - quite literally?