You can outrun almost
anything. Except being found.

Nine months ago, Elle Bennett walked away from a life that looked perfect from the outside and felt like a locked room from the inside. She took a different name, a rented cottage at the far end of a coastal town, and a promise to herself that she would never again need anyone.

Cade Whitaker was not part of the plan. He is quiet where she is guarded, steady where she is bracing for impact — and he asks nothing of her except the truth, which is the only thing she cannot give.

But the past she outran has been patient. It knows what she left behind. And when it finally comes looking, Elle has to decide whether the safest thing she has ever done is also the loneliest — or whether being found is the one risk worth taking.

The companion to Where You Found Me — the same year, the same town, the same impossible pull, told from the other side of the door.

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