From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new second-chance, hate-to-love romance.
And maybe this time she\'s the one playing herself-out of a chance at true happiness..
Maybe Shane has changed.
But as she spends more time with him, she begins to fear that maybe she\'s wrong.
She won\'t allow herself to fall for the single father and firefighter again, no matter how many apologies he offers, how many times he rushes to her aid, or how hard he makes her heart pound.
Neighbors they may be, but friends they most certainly are not.
Scarlet makes it abundantly clear that old wounds have not been forgotten.
Shane Beckett, who is as attractive as ever and flashing his dimples at her as if he has done no wrong.
The lying, cheating Player who was supposed to be long gone, living the pro football dream and fooling women into thinking he\'s Prince Charming.
Shane Beckett, the handsome and charismatic high school star quarterback who smashed her heart.
That is, until she finds out that Shane Beckett lives Next door.
With a teaching job secured and an adorable fixer-upper to call home, things in her life are finally looking up.
Scarlet Reed has returned to Polson Falls, convinced that twelve years away is long enough to shed her humiliating childhood identity as the town harlot\'s daughter.
From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new second-chance, hate-to-love romance
