Maybel Laurel Runyan

Was crazy… At least that’s what everyone seemed to think in Lucius, Montana, when she’d suffered a breakdown after her father supposedly murdered her mother. Now, after a twelve-year absence, she’d returned to bury her estranged father…and her past.

But discovering that her first love, Sheriff Shane Golightly, was her new neighbor wasn’t the mark of a sane woman. Particularly when just the sound of his molasses-smooth voice recalled the one and only time they’d made love—and reopened old wounds.

Laurel vowed she’d just make Shane recognize the strong, independent woman she’d become and move on, but the sheriff seemed determined to make Laurel give Lucius—and him—a second chance….