Cross My Heart: A Heart-Wrenching Romance About Love, Betrayal, and Second Chances

He disappeared without a goodbye. Eight years later, he returns with a truth that could destroy everything she believes.

Elena Hart makes a living creating perfect weddings in Chicago, but she stopped believing in perfect love a long time ago.

Eight years earlier, Adrian Cole was the man she trusted with her heart, her future, and every promise that mattered. Then, without warning, he walked out of her life. No explanation. No closure. Only a message that convinced Elena he had chosen to leave her behind.

She never forgave him.

She certainly never expected to see him again.

But when Elena lands the biggest wedding contract of her career, she discovers the groom’s best man is none other than Adrian.

Forced into each other’s orbit, old anger collides with an attraction neither of them has forgotten. Then Adrian makes a devastating claim:

Elena never knew the real reason he left.

As buried secrets begin to surface, Elena discovers that the heartbreak she spent eight years trying to overcome may have been built on a lie. Someone wanted Adrian out of her life. Someone she trusted knew more than they admitted. And the deeper Elena searches for answers, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Now she must decide whether Adrian deserves a second chance, whether forgiveness can survive betrayal, and whether love can ever be rebuilt once trust has been shattered.

Because sometimes the person who breaks your heart is still the person who holds it.

And some promises are worth making twice.

Cross My Heart is an emotional second-chance romance about broken trust, family secrets, forgiveness, and two people discovering that real love isn't about promising never to fail. It's about having the courage to tell the truth when everything is at stake.