I stayed and became someone else.
For fifteen years, I've been fine. Steady. The guy people call when the alarm sounds, someone's missing, or the fire's through the roof. I run toward other people's worst day for a living, and I never rattle. Ask anyone in town.
Then Darcy Bennett walks into the one bar I happen to be sitting in, and I find out exactly how much of that is true.
She says she's home on leave from her Chicago law firm. She won't be staying. This town never suited her. But Darcy cross-examines people for a living, and now she's asking questions about the one night nobody in Stillwater talks about.
The night her sister died.
We were eighteen. Everyone here knows how that night ended, and everyone has spent years wishing they'd done something different. Me most of all. Darcy is looking at it with a lawyer's eyes now, and the story this town has been living with is starting to come apart.
And someone is determined to make her stop digging.
I let Darcy go once. I told myself it was the right call. But as old secrets start breaking loose, I'm not so sure anymore.
A blizzard is coming. So is the truth. Neither one is waiting for permission.
And when it comes, I'll walk through fire to keep the only woman I've ever loved safe.
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Isabel Jolie writes the kind of romance that keep you up late into the night. Her steamy contemporary novels feature tough, unforgettable heroes and the strong women who challenge them, all wrapped up in edge-of-your-seat suspense and those sizzling happily-ever-afters we all crave.
Since publishing her first book in 2020, Isabel has released over twenty novels that have found their way into the hands (and hearts) of readers everywhere. When she's not crafting her next swoon-worthy hero, you'll find her by the lake in North Carolina with a glass of wine and a good book—because even romance writers need their book boyfriends.
Her characters always face impossible choices, but they never forget the most important rule: love wins. Every. Single. Time.