C. K. Green

Carter Hayes was a soldier. A protector. Until the night he failed the one person who needed him most. Now, drowning in guilt and whiskey, he’s given one last chance to rebuild his shattered life at Valor Ridge, a place for veterans seeking redemption.

Some loves never fade, no matter how much time or distance stands between them. Addison Lawson thought she had moved on. Engaged to a dependable man and settled into her life as a teacher in their quiet mountain town, she’s done everything she can to forget the boy who left her behind.

A marriage of blood. A passion of fire. A love that could break them. Isla Marino was never meant to survive her marriage. The Los Angeles mafia princess was supposed to be a pawn, bound to Matteo DeLuca—Rome’s most feared enforcer—until her usefulness ran out.

Ethan can’t forget the day he’d found her, beaten and bloody on the side of the road, barely alive. That one unsolved case changed Ethan's life as a detective....