When she was a child, he was her hero. When she grew up, he was her dream.
Charlotte Rose has loved Runner Jeffries since she was five years old. Her best friend. Her protector. Her constant companion who left town to become a Major League star.
Late-night phone calls. Texts about nothing. He hasn't gone a week without her voice in his ear since he was thirteen. He has no idea she's been building a life with him in her head, brick by brick, the whole time.
Now Charlotte is a Cornell-educated attorney with a life waiting in New York, ready for Runner to see the woman she's become. When he comes home to their small Colorado town with a fianc e, a woman he's never mentioned, her future collapses.
But she's not the girl he left behind. When she tells him she's fallen in love, something dark and unfamiliar uncurls in his chest. He demands a name.
As they say goodbye, she leans in and gives him four words.
"Look in the mirror."
Back in New York, Runner can think of nothing else. The Firefly he was supposed to protect is the woman he can't get out of his head. He's engaged to someone he doesn't love. And the only one he can see is the one he was never supposed to want.
To win her, he'll have to burn down the life he came home with.
A tender, deeply emotional friends-to-lovers romance about timing, devotion, and the courage to reach for forever.