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<b>From the <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>Fisher's Light</i> comes a "heartbreaking and hopeful" (AL Jackson) standalone romance about first love and second chances.</b> <br> How much can a man take before he breaks? <br> 1,843 days. That's how long I survived in that hellhole. They tried to break me, but I resisted. And I owe it all to the memory of warm summer nights, the scent of peaches, and the one woman who loved me more than I ever deserved to be loved. Now, I'll do anything to get back to her. <br> Only Shelby Eubanks isn't the girl I left behind all those years ago. She's someone else, a stranger. <i>My</i> Shelby-my little green-eyed firecracker-would never give up her dreams, would never disappear into her mother's ambitions. But I won't give up on her. On <i>us</i>. I may be broken, and scarred, and not the man I used to be, but I will do whatever it takes to remind her of the story of us.