Lost Letters

LillyIt was only supposed to be a quick trip to my hometown: find out why the police needed to interview me and get back to my daughter.Enter Noah James. My high school sweetheart and the man who shattered every dream I had with his refusal to acknowledge our baby girl. He had me fooled with his sexy smile and smooth charm. I swore I'd never let myself be fooled again.But, one night of grief at Donna's Bar led to my world crumbling at my feet. It only took a couple of hours to realize the things I thought I knew were false. The people I trusted most had been keeping too many secrets to count.And those secrets might prove to be fatal.NoahI tried everything to stop loving Lilly Gallagher.She was my best friend, the love of my life, and the one I thought I'd spend forever with.When she left town without saying goodbye, I thought I'd never recover. But I managed to move forward and build a decent life in our hometown.At least, I thought it was, until she returned, destroying the illusion of happiness I'd created.And with her arrival came a truth too hard to comprehend. I had a daughter I knew nothing about.Lies taken to the grave have a way of coming back around. Little did I know, the truth would put everyone I love in danger.

LottieEveryone told me not to fall for him. They said I was too young to wait around, and he was too old to love a girl like me.But it only took one night with William "Teddy" Kavanagh and I fell. Hard. Now, he's all but a ghost. The only thing I have left of the man I remember are the emails he sent me after he deployed.Because the man who returned to me isn't the same one who left.I believed the only demons I had to fight were the ones haunting Teddy. Little did I know, I had demons of my own, ready to pull me into their darkness. TeddyShe was my guardian angel, the only reason I made it out alive. And I hate her for it.Lottie was the epitome of the girl next door. She was way too young to have piqued my interest, but her magnetism wouldn't let me go. Her emails were my saving grace while I was overseas, and the picture I kept in my front pocket guarded me until the very end.I shouldn't have survived that IED. No one in my unit lived through it, and God knows I didn't want to either. But here I am, a broken shell of a man, trying to fit into a world I no longer recognize.Yet, Lottie looks at me as if I'm whole, like I hung the moon just for her. If only I could get her to see I'm not the person she believes I am.I'm not the hero of this story. I never will be. And I refuse to let my demons drag Lottie into the darkness with me.

GinnyI didn't plan on being a runaway bride…but when I caught my fiance banging one of my bridesmaids on our wedding day, my world got flipped upside down.In my panic, I called the one person who wouldn't ask any questions-my best friend, Carson James. He took one look at me and got us out of there fast.Unfortunately, I can't just run away without consequences. As country music's biggest star, people have a lot to say about my life and the choices I make.When someone begins to send me threatening letters, Carson becomes one of the few people I trust to keep me safe. The only problem is, I've gone and fallen in love with him.How am I supposed to hide my feelings from the only man who has ever seen the real me? CarsonI've been in love with Ginny Miller since we were kids.She has no idea. I've never told her, and I don't plan to, especially since she's supposed to marry someone else. At least, that was the plan-then she asked me to help her run away from her own wedding.I thought that would be the end of it. We'd hide out until the frenzy died down and things would go back to normal.Instead, some lunatic starts stalking Ginny, and in my quest to protect her, I've only fallen more in love with her. I didn't think that was possible.There's no way to hide how I feel about her, but what happens when those feelings are the reason she's in danger?