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Detective Avery Whitehall is done living undercover.

After years of dangerous assignments in North Hollywood alongside her best friend, Nyla Harper, Avery transfers to Mid-Wilshire hoping for something steadier - something normal. While Nyla returns to Patrol to train rookie officer John Nolan, Avery makes the surprising decision to step back into patrol work herself, choosing to ride solo instead of partnering up.

She tells herself it's temporary. Easier that way.

But Mid-Wilshire comes with familiar faces, including Sergeant Tim Bradford - someone Avery hasn't seen since their Academy days. Back then, they were close. Close enough that maybe things could've become something more, if life hadn't gotten in the way.

Now Tim is freshly divorced from Isabel, another Academy friend Avery once knew well, and trying to move forward with his new girlfriend, Rachel Hall. Avery has no intention of complicating his life.

Unfortunately, feelings don't care about good timing.

Between old memories, and the weight both of them carry from years on the job, Avery and Tim find themselves pulled back toward each other in ways neither of them expected.

Sometimes the hardest part of coming home is facing the people you never truly left behind.

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This story is written purely for entertainment purposes with no profit intended.