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Falling Embers

Catherine Cowles · Tattered & Torn #2

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Years after one night tore them apart, she burns for her brother's best friend — now a single dad who wants her back.

Content Warnings
stalkingviolence/gore

Description

I loved Calder Cruz from the moment he taught me to fly. He might’ve been my brother’s best friend but he was my everything.The only who understood me. My safest place. My person.Until one night changed it all and we became strangers in a single breath.Now, years later, I see him every day at the fire station. I watch him raise adorable twin girls as a single dad. But he has no idea how hard it was to see him move on without me.How much I still burn for him.A twist of fate changes everything. When my life is on the line, it’s Calder who saves me–who comes charging back into my heart with a vengeance. And makes it clear he’s determined to stay.But as long-buried embers light anew, there are those who lurk in the shadows. And they’ll do whatever it takes to extinguish that flame for good...

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