Ink-Stained Promises

Violet Callaghan thought she had one more summer to forget him.
Forget the letters.
Forget the kiss that changed everything.
Forget the boy the town never wanted her to love in the first place.

She never expected Grant Westwood- the boy with ink on his hands and a wildfire in his chest - to be back in Marigold Creek. Not after he was sent away. Not after the silence. Not after everything.

They stopped talking before senior year.
Two hearts broken by the same lie - each thinking the other stopped writing.

Now it's the summer before college.
Violet's spending it, like always, in the town where everyone thinks the pastor is her uncle... and no one knows he's really her father.

But nothing stays buried in this town - not faith, not family secrets, and definitely not first love.

Because the past has a habit of returning...
And some promises don't fade - they burn.