A novel by AmberLee Fuller
“Rule 26: If it starts to feel like a romance novel... run.”
Ryan Callahan is very good at rules. She made them after everyone she ever loved left. A list designed to keep her safe, her heart intact, and her exits clean.
For seventeen years, she held everything together, putting her dreams on hold as Parkinson’s took her
father, piece by piece. When he dies, she doesn’t fall apart.
She disappears.
With nothing left tying her to The Inlet, Ryan does the only logical thing. She gets drunk, quits her job, throws a dart at a map, and takes the long way to Oklahoma City.
She finally settles. Builds a life. Follows the rules.
Until a stranger steps into her frame. Dark, quiet, and impossible to ignore. The kind of beautiful that makes you forget your own name… and every rule you wrote to protect it.
And just as she starts to break them, the past she built them to survive finds her.
