Widowed before her twenty-third birthday in the plane crash she walked away from, Emmalynn Reed doesn’t stray far from the looming shadow of the mountain range that took her husband. To those closest to her, she is bravely overcoming unthinkable trauma. But death hasn’t relinquished its grip since that awful bang in the air a year ago, and the more she resists, the more crushing its weight.
Seeking distraction, Emmalynn returns to full-time work in a Colorado real estate office and reluctantly takes on a new client. Her husband’s estranged childhood friend, Lucas Bradford, is moving back to town. Despite her reservations and their supposed mutual disdain, a tentative friendship soon forms. When she discovers an unwelcome party in her honor overlaps with his cross-country trip to pack up his life, she makes an impulsive decision that will fracture the protective barrier she has erected between the past and present.
The breach blurs the line between friendship and a love that was never supposed to happen, forcing Emmalynn to face the accident, the loss of life, and the tragic end she has written for herself, which leads her back to the start. A buried connection. A subsequent pact. Theirs is an emotional journey capable of sealing a destined bond that could bestow everything she lost and more—or finally tear her in two.
