Muscle Memory

Haley James has always played it safe, following the rules and making choices that keep her life neat and tidy. As a successful teacher in her hometown of Tree Hill, she's content-at least, that's what she tells herself. But buried deep is the memory of a single night that shattered her carefully constructed world. When Nathan Scott, the man she never expected to see again, suddenly reappears at her birthday party, Haley is forced to confront the passion and uncertainty she's been avoiding for years. Caught between the security of the life she's built and the magnetic pull of the past, Haley must decide if she's ready to take the biggest risk of all-her heart.

Nathan Scott has always been the one to keep his emotions at arm's length, masking his pain with a devil-may-care attitude. As the estranged younger brother of Lucas Scott, he's spent years drifting through life, chasing highs and avoiding attachments. But there's one memory that Nathan can't shake-the night he spent with Haley James. When he unexpectedly crosses paths with her again, old feelings he thought were long buried begin to resurface. Haunted by the life he's tried to leave behind and the woman who's always been just out of reach, Nathan must decide if he's ready to face the truth: that some things, and some people, are impossible to forget.