Yours to Keep (Honeybrook Hollow #5)

A letter she never answered. The man who never forgot her. A second chance, years in the making.

In high school, Cara Darlington tutored Jasper Dean, the quiet senior boy she had a secret crush on. She told herself it was just about helping him pass English. But it was so much more than that.

He knew how she felt. He felt it too. But he left for the Marines anyway, because they were too young and it was the wrong time.

Years later, he's home for good, and Honeybrook Hollow is a small town—the kind where everyone knows your name and your business. There is nowhere to hide and no way to keep pretending they're just two people who used to know each other.
And it turns out, Jasper has been waiting a long time to stop pretending. He just needed a reason to stay.

Then, when a man from her past refuses to take no for an answer, Jasper steps in. He isn’t trying to rescue her—he’s trying to deserve her.

But he’s hiding something. And after too many men who never deserved her, Cara won’t risk her heart on anything less than everything.

Yours to Keep is a slow burn, small town, second chance romance for readers who love brooding veteran heroes, soft-hearted bookish heroines, nosy sisters who are always right, and love stories that prove some things are worth the wait.