TETHERED TO YOU

7 years ago, 17 years old GRACE VANDERMEER was just a girl in love. Smart. Blazing with potential, planning her life after graduation. Beautiful in that quiet, devastating way that made people stop mid-sentence. She had her eyes set on a life that would be hers to command & control-and more than anything, she had him, CARDAN PRICE, her first love, the boy who looked at her like she was the first sunrise after a crushing winter. Mysterious, brilliant, broken in ways that pulled her in. Their chemistry was impossible to ignore. The love they shared was obsessive, fierce, and terrifyingly real.
Then, without a word, he vanished.

Now, Grace stands at the pinnacle of success, a single mother to a precocious seven-year-old girl, LEONORA with ice-blue eyes like him, that haunt her every time she dares to look too long. Her heart was shattered, her world upended, but she rose-tirelessly, mercilessly, proudly.
The name Cardan Price became a forbidden word, a ghost she buried under contracts and cover stories of her magazine, REVUE. Until fate-cruel, unsympathetic, merciless-dragged him back into her world in the blink of an eye.

He came back.
And this time, he has questions.
He has regrets.
He has no idea what he left behind.

He wants redemption.
She wants him gone.
And between them stands a little girl who unknowingly carries all the truth neither of them are ready to face.
This is a story about first love: lost and rediscovered.
Of pain that doesn't fade.
Of wounds that don't heal just because time pretends they have.
Of a man determined to win back what he never should've left.
And a woman who swore to never let him hurt her again.
But hearts are traitorous.
And passion-real passion-never stays dead.

Welcome to "TETHERED TO YOU".