First Love, Second Chance

Michael First had it all. A wife he loved. Children he was proud of. A job that challenged and fulfilled him.


Then Clare, his wife, is killed in a car accident. That’s tragic enough, but when the police discover tampered brakes on her car and charge him with her murder, his world comes crashing down around him.


The family hires the best defense attorney available. Michael and Lara Stovall attended high school together, even went steady for a while—until he met Clare. They haven’t thought of each other in years, but now, working closely to keep him from spending the rest of his life in prison, maybe even a death sentence, they discover that not one but two trials are underway.


Maybe their feelings for each other are born of desperation and fear, lingering doubt and a raw grief. Or maybe, just maybe, they have a second chance at their first love.