She’s hiding from her past. He’s chasing his. Neither expects the spark that could change everything. 

Trying to mend her broken heart, twenty-four-year-old teacher Jet Diekerhof takes a gap year to start fresh. Her family is horrified until her sister Harley finds her a long-term sub position at a one-room schoolhouse in Marietta, Montana. Jet’s grateful to be far from her meddling relatives, and the guy who broke her heart. She’s sworn off men…until she meets darkly handsome Shane Swan.

At thirty-four, Shane has always been an outsider. Raised by his grandmother until her death when he was four, he spent his childhood in foster care. Brilliant and ambitious, he’s become one of America’s most successful writers. Yet none of his success answers the question that haunts him: why was he given away while his brothers were kept? Determined to uncover the truth, Shane moves to Marietta. And no one is closer to the Sheenans than Brock’s young sister-in-law, Jet.

Shane never meant to use her, but Jet may hold the key to his past, and resisting the growing pull between them soon becomes impossible.