Seventeen years ago, Clara Bennett left Adrian Hawthorne waiting in an empty booth with two cooling cups of coffee and a promise she never kept. He spent every year since turning himself into a man no one could ever leave again. She spent those same years pouring coffee in the diner where they first fell in love, quietly collecting every magazine cover that featured his face, and telling herself she no longer had the right to want him. Now Adrian is back in Seabrook as the billionaire who buys broken things and rebuilds them into something profitable. The first property on his list is the neighborhood that still holds every memory of the girl who once chose him and also now works there. He is ready to inflict the pain she caused him years ago, is she ready to take it?