Desi comes home hoping to reconnect—with the friends who never knew why she vanished, with the family that loved her like their own, and with the boy who held her whole heart before circumstances she never chose put a thousand miles between them. She didn’t expect that boy to have turned into a man who looks straight at her and sees a stranger worth suspecting.
The trouble is, Desi has always been able to see straight through Jason, and sixteen years haven’t changed that. She knows grief when she’s looking at it. She knows the difference between a man who doesn’t want her and a man who’s terrified of what wanting her would cost.
Saying so out loud is going to cost them both something. But not saying it might end up costing them everything.
Redemption is the eighth book in the Olman County small-town romantic suspense series. Told in dual POV, it's set in fictional Leroy, Indiana—a town full of meddling friends, family, and secrets that don't stay buried. The story delivers a grumpy-sunshine, second-chance romance between a grieving single dad who has narrowed his life down to work and his son, and the self-made woman returning home after sixteen years to a town that never knew why she left.