Five years ago, Iris Sterling ended things with the only man she ever loved — not because she stopped loving him, but because she had decided she did not deserve to be happy.
Now Hayden Wade is back in her life as the cold, untouchable director of the company her firm has partnered with. He is colder than she remembers, sharp and unreachable, and every meeting between them is an exercise in old wounds. But beneath the distance, something neither of them buried is still there — in the photo he never changed, in the way he still worries over her in spite of himself.
To reach for him, Iris will have to face the grief she has carried for years and finally forgive herself.
A tender, emotional second-chance romance about loss, guilt, and finding the courage to walk forward into love.
(Content note: this story involves grief following the death of a friend.)