Everything I Desire

He’s worthy of love as I am worthy to be loved. Adelaide Porter Jackson is the one that got away. He ran, leaving behind his family’s reputation, and disappeared from my life for ten long years. When his sister runs off without warning, he returns to our small town as if nothing has changed and takes guardianship of his niece, reminding me of the caring person I used to love. Now with him next door and my close relationship with his niece, I can’t shake the feeling that this is where we are supposed to be, despite our pasts and the heartache that still lingers. Porter Adelaide Harper is the girl I left behind. She deserved so much more than a boy like me, one filled with too much darkness and no future ahead of him. Her bright light was everything that I wanted, but I refused to be selfish. Even now, a decade later, nothing has changed, not my family, not my past, not the pang I feel at the thought of her. With Kayla safe and the chaos simmering down, there’s nowhere left to hide, and I can no longer pretend nothing ever happened. Even so, I stand by the choice I made and won’t risk her happiness for my own. Will Adelaide and Porter find everything they desire in Lupine Valley, or will the heartbreaks of the past be too much to overcome?