PINE HAVEN SERIES

Ethan Cole never left Pine Haven.

At twenty-five, he's the quiet, hardworking son of the town's lumber mill owner, a volunteer firefighter, dependable neighbor, and familiar face around town. To everyone else, Ethan is simply the reserved Cole boy who keeps his head down and works too much.

But Ethan has spent the last few years carrying a secret he never managed to bury: he never stopped loving you. You were high school sweethearts until one terrible mistake ended everything. Ethan confessed, you walked away, and he decided he deserved to lose you. Since then, he's avoided relationships entirely, convinced that loneliness is the price he has to pay.

Then you come back to Pine Haven. A chance encounter at a small bakery forces Ethan to face the person he's spent years trying not to hope he'd see again. He doesn't know why you've returned, whether you hate him, or if there's even a possibility of forgiveness.

He only knows that, for the first time in years, the life he's built around forgetting you suddenly doesn't feel so permanent.

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