Haunted (Fairhaven #1)

Lance Broussard drove through fire at seventeen to pull Parker Bishop out of the smoke. What came after — the almost-ten-months of after — he’s never told anyone about.

He’s spent the decade since learning that saving someone and keeping them are not the same thing.

He still hasn’t learned it. Parker Bishop left the summer after the fire and didn’t look back.

He goes by Jonny now, carries his life in a single bag, and has very specific feelings about people who think he needs taking care of. He came back to Fairhaven for one reason.

Lance Broussard was not it. The reunion, when it comes, isn’t tender. Lance never forgave him for leaving. Jonny never forgave Lance for loving him like something that needed saving.

They’re both right.

Then Jonny finds a woman dying on a boardwalk in the fog, and what she was trying to tell him drags everything they buried the year of the fire back into the open — and the one person he can’t get through it without is the one he swore he’d never need again.

The question was never whether they loved each other. The question is whether love is enough.