Fame chewed me up and spat me out.
A stalker nearly destroyed what was left.
So I ran to Cedar Lake Falls, the last place anyone would look.
I’m Lucky Vale.
Once a rising star.
Now, a ghost hiding behind locked doors, sleepless nights, and music I can’t bear to touch.
Then I meet him.
Ethan Maddox—my quiet, disciplined next-door neighbor with a daughter who sings my songs and a past he refuses to talk about.
Ex-military.
Controlled.
Much too observant.
And somehow, impossibly, safe.
I tell myself not to fall.
But Ethan looks at me like he sees every broken piece I’ve tried to outrun.
And just when Cedar Lake Falls starts feeling like a place I could breathe again…my past finds me.
Danger doesn’t knock this time, it walks right in.
Ethan warned me he wasn’t a hero.
He never told me he was something far more dangerous.

A slow-burn, high-heat small-town romance with dark undercurrents, hidden pasts, and a love fierce enough to fight the shadows.