When Nina Chance's late shift at the cafe ends in a terrifying encounter on a dark street, the last thing she expects is to be rescued by a cool-voiced stranger who feels like d j vu with dimples. Brayden Winters is steady where her life feels shaky, gentle where her past still aches, and familiar in a way she can't explain.
Their walk home-meant to be a moment of safety-becomes something electric. For the first time in years, Nina lets herself feel seen. But just as quickly, that hope shatters: Brayden has a girlfriend.
Nina tells herself to forget him. She's been the other woman before, and she refuses to play that role again. Yet Brayden keeps reaching out-kind, respectful, and drawn to her in ways he's trying hard not to name. And when Nina discovers he works at the same horse ranch where she once found comfort as a teenager, their lives begin to overlap in ways neither of them can ignore.
But the biggest blow comes when she learns who Brayden's girlfriend is: Jordy, her estranged cousin and former best friend. The girl who once felt like a sister, and now feels like a reminder of everything Nina has lost.
As Nina's carefully contained world cracks open-family wounds resurfacing, trauma demanding to be faced, and Brayden becoming impossible to forget-she's forced to choose: retreat into the loneliness that's always felt safer, or step into a life that finally wants her back.
Savior Complex is a steamy, emotional small-town romance about healing, impossible choices, and the magnetic pull of a love that arrives too soon and too late. Book Three in the Sunset Bay series, this emotional slow-burn romance will stay with you long after the last page.