Sheβs the only one who ever loved himβand the only one he can never have.
Jude lost everything one spring day when he crashed his car into an apple tree on the side of the road. A man is dead, and there's no way he can ever right that wrong. Heβd steer clear of Colebury, Vermont forever if he could. But an ex-con in recovery for his drug addiction canβt find a job just anywhere.
Sophie Haines is stunned by his reappearance. After a three year absence, the man who killed her brother and broke her heart is suddenly everywhere she turns. Itβs hard not to stare at how much heβs changed. The bad boy who used to love her didnβt have big biceps and sun-kissed hair. And heβd never volunteer in the church kitchen.
No one wants to see Sophie and Jude back together, least of all Sophie's police chief father. But it's a small town. And forbidden love is a law unto itself.
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