The Year You Came Back

She’s chasing answers. He’s searching for peace. Love may be the only thing they find.

Drama therapist Kateri Grey never meant to return to the small coastal town of Herring Point. But when her company is chosen to launch a new creative program on the Maine coast—twenty years after the crash that took her father’s life and nearly her own—she drags her feet. The town still whispers about that night: the lost World War II heirloom her father died chasing, the secrets that fractured her family. After years of helping others heal, Kateri must finally confront her own story.

Detective Aaron Brogan is back in town too—on mandatory leave after a case in Portland shattered his confidence and left him questioning everything. Helping Kateri wasn’t in his plans, but the girl he once admired has become a woman he can’t walk away from. Yet the deeper they dig, the more Aaron fears the truth. Because for twenty years, he has carried his own piece of that night, one that could change everything for both of them.

Drawn together by unanswered questions and a connection neither expected, Kateri and Aaron must confront their pasts, trust each other with their scars, and decide whether healing means letting go—or holding on.