The First Love She Held On To

Two months after her wedding, Layla’s husband is gone, and grief strips her life down to what she can barely manage.

She goes back to the small coastal hometown where her family ties remain tangled and unfinished.

Waiting there is Jacob, the first love whose history with her was never resolved.

Five years have remade him, and the past he now carries is something Layla is only starting to see.

Whenever they meet, he stirs a feeling she was certain her heart could no longer answer.

Drawing closer forces her to weigh the husband she lost against the love she never released, and letting Jacob in again may be the only risk that lets her heal.