After seven years away, Amara Williams returns to her hometown to save her late father’s failing hotel. She expects financial stress, old memories, and judgment from the town she abandoned—but she doesn’t expect Ethan Cole.Ethan was her first love. Her almost-forever. The man she left behind without a proper goodbye.Now he’s successful, colder, and engaged to Vanessa Hart—the ambitious woman who once made Amara’s life miserable and now wants to buy her family’s hotel from under her.Forced into business meetings, town events, and unavoidable proximity, old feelings begin to rise. Secrets from the past unravel, and Amara discovers their breakup wasn’t the full story she believed.But some loves don’t end. They wait.And some second chances come at the worst possible time