Almost Yours (Lily Ridge, 1)

Rowan

I’ve imagined kissing Violet Larkin more times than I’ll ever admit—back when we were eighteen and too scared to risk what we had. Back when she’d fall asleep on my shoulder and I’d stare at her mouth, wondering if she felt it too.

 

I chose duty over desire instead. Enlisted and left town before I could ruin her future by asking her to wait for mine.

Now I’m back home, but Violet's not the girl I left behind. She's stronger. Independent. So damn beautiful she steals the air from my lungs.

 

I’ve waited years to touch her.

 

I just don’t know if I deserve the chance.

 

Violet

Rowan Wolfe leaving without a word shouldn’t have felt like heartbreak. We were never together. He never promised me anything.

 

We were a thousand almosts, but never brave enough to make it real.

 

Six years later, Rowan's back in Lily Ridge with calloused hands and eyes that hold too many stories. When he looks at me, it feels unfinished, like the last page of a book was torn out and handed back to us. Maybe we were just too young back then.

 

Either way, the boy I loved from afar is standing in front of me as a man.

 

But what if loving him now only means losing him twice?

 

This is Book 1 in the Lily Ridge Series. Every couple gets their own standalone story with a HEA!