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Leighton James knows how to reinvent anything.
As a corporate event planner, she has built her career helping brands discover who they are and how they want the world to see them. A rebrand is something she can plan, execute, and perfect.
She just never imagined she would need one herself.
After eight years with her high school sweetheart, Leighton thought she had finally reached the life she always wanted. A successful career, a future she had planned, and a love story that began when they were teenagers.
Until everything falls apart.
Now, at twenty-six, Leighton is left picking up the pieces of a future she no longer recognizes. The engagement is over, the trust is gone, and the woman who spent years believing in forever is no longer sure she believes in love at all.
So she does what she knows best.
She starts over.
A new look. New boundaries. New priorities.
A rebrand.
The last thing Leighton wants is a relationship, especially not after spending years giving her heart to someone who broke it. She is determined to focus on herself, her career, and the people who have always loved her.
Then there's Theodore.
Theo has been a familiar face in her life for years, but time and circumstance have always kept them on different paths. Patient, steady, and nothing like the love Leighton thought she knew, Theo doesn't try to rush her healing or convince her to open her heart before she's ready.
He simply shows up.
As an old connection slowly becomes something more, Leighton has to confront the walls she built to protect herself. Because letting Theo in means risking the one thing she promised herself she would never give away again.
Her heart.
A story about second chances, rebuilding, and learning that the end of one love story does not mean there isn't another one waiting to begin.