Beneath The Ruins

After ten years away, Aurora "Rory" Hale swore she'd never return to Magnolia Ridge. But her mother's sudden, suspicious death drags her back to the small town she once ran from - and straight into the storm she thought she'd escaped.

Then there's Elias Kane.
The town's outcast. The boy with the haunted eyes. The man everyone whispers about - the one rumored to have killed his own father. Brooding, dangerous, and magnetic, he's a reminder of everything Rory wanted to forget.

But Elias knows something about her mother's past... something the rest of Magnolia Ridge would kill to keep buried. And the deeper Rory digs, the more tangled she becomes in his secrets - and in him.

Because beneath his rough edges is a man as broken as she is.
Because the truth might destroy her.
Because desire doesn't care about warnings...
And in Magnolia Ridge, some secrets are worth dying for.