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She was grieving. He was gorgeous. The rest? A disaster.
Hayley Brooks wasn't doing well. After losing her long-time lover in a tragic accident, she's spent the last few years drowning in guilt, grief, and ghosted therapy appointments. Love? Not even on her radar.
But one night in LA changes everything. Thanks to one too many drinks-and a wildly persuasive best friend-Hayley wakes up in a Vegas hotel next to a total stranger. A ridiculously attractive, devastatingly charming stranger named West.
It should've been a one-night mistake. Until it wasn't.
As Hayley starts to fall for the man who's helping her feel something again, she discovers a gut-wrenching truth: West isn't just part of her healing-he's the reason she needed it in the first place.
She has to choose between walking away from the only person who's made her feel alive again... or staying and unraveling everything she thought she knew about love, loss, and forgiveness.
This is the story of a guarded girl who's tired of believing in happy endings, and a man who just might ruin her all over again.
But he's not her knight-in-shining-whatever... or so she thinks.
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