No one in the small Maine town of Birch Crossing knows where ex-military Harlan Shea goes when he disappears for months at a time, but whenever he reappears, his eyes are always haunted with trauma he will never share. When he returns to town for one last time, there is only one woman he wants to see, one woman he needs to connect with before he departs forever, one woman who can save what is left of his soul.
Still healing from a brutal marriage she barely escaped, Emma Larson is damaged in ways she will never reveal, not to anyone...except the dangerous, sensual man who has haunted her dreams for years, a man she has barely spoken to, a man who has come back into her life for twenty-four intense hours.
One moonlit night is all they have.
But one night is not going to be enough. Not for him. Not for her. Not for the hearts they keep so tightly protected. But there is no future for them...or is there? They will have to become braver than they've ever been...