The Silhouette of Us

Mason Carr knows what it feels like to be someone's second choice.

He learned that lesson at Outpost 17, where he allowed himself to want something he couldn't have. Isla cared for him, and he cared for her, but when the choice was finally made, Mason wasn't the one standing beside her.

So he moved on.

Or at least, that's what he tells himself.

Love isn't something Mason is searching for when another woman unexpectedly enters his life. She challenges his patience, slips past his defenses, and makes him question whether the part of himself he left behind at Outpost 17 was ever truly gone.

But this time, something is different.

There is no other man. No choice waiting to be made. No question of where her heart belongs.

Mason Carr knows what it feels like to come second.

With her, he was always first.