CALUM KNEW HE SHOULD never have gone to Rett’s. Before he even knocked on her window, he’d known he needed to go back to Georgie’s and leave the girl alone. It was too close to friendship—to companionship—and he didn’t want that. God, but he did, though. Somehow, over the previous…
HIS LAUGH WAS BEAUTIFUL, Rett thought. Calum’s nose scrunched up, lips stretched into a smile. Something she hadn’t yet seen. She’d come close that morning, she knew as much, but his scowl had immediately replaced the minute twitch of his lips. But there he was laughing just because she said…
HE KNEW IT WAS a horrible decision, but Calum still waited for Rett to sit with her friends before slipping out of the cafeteria. It was too close to friendship, that moment in US Government, and he wasn’t there to make friends. Rett was only meant to be someone he…
LORETTA COX WATCHED CALUM scan the classroom before he took an empty seat in the back. Being new couldn’t be easy, especially when it was in a town with only eight hundred inhabitants—most of whom lived out of the center of said town. She’d lived there for almost eighteen years,…
Seven Years Ago CALUM WINGER DIDN’T WANT to be in Oak Creek—wherever Oak Creek actually was. All he knew was it was somewhere in the middle of Tennessee. And that his mother had enough of his behavior and sent him over a thousand miles to live with an aunt and…
TWELVE HOURS. LORETTA COX has been driving for twelve hours, and her butt is numb, legs aching from where they are folded under the dashboard. She’s had to use the toilet for the last hour. Backwoods Tennessee doesn’t offer many public restrooms, though, so she forces herself to focus on…