The Stars that Keep Us

"I'd left a lot of broken pieces in Dix River. The ugly kind of broken that didn't fit the beauty of the landscape. And it was beautiful, even in the deepest part of winter when it was all shades of gray, frozen and desolate. Dix was beautiful even when a town cop rode your tail close enough to kiss your back bumper two minutes after you’d driven past the city’s welcome sign."

Madeline Stevens never wanted to return to Dix River. Ever.

For her, Dix was synonymous with loss. Lost time and lost loves. Two loves, in particular. So when she's hired to write a magazine article on the police investigation of her boyfriend's death twelve years earlier, she expects returning to Dix to entail a certain amount of misery. She doesn't expect a second chance at happiness. Or that it could come by way of a small-town cop, in love with her since he put a dandelion ring on her finger in second grade.

This is a standalone, second chance HEA containing mature themes and bad humor. It is intended for a mature audience.