Wren has done her best to move on from Holt in the ten years since he’s been gone. A love like that ruined you for all others. It didn’t matter if it had been ten days or ten years.

All of the parts of his past are all tangled up, but at the centre of it all is Wren, and with one glance at her, he knows he won’t be able to leave her again. Wren is the best friend of Holt’s younger sister, and she has been a much-loved part of the Hartley family since she was a kid – even after Holt left town. Not only because he has to make amends with his family and friends for being gone for so long, but he knows that he’s going to have to see Wren again. Now he’s returning home to see his family, and he’s finally ready to face up to everything that he left behind. Holt could not deal with the fallout and, consumed with guilt, he left town and didn’t look back, honestly thinking that he was doing the right thing for everybody. Until one brutal tragedy changed everything. Holt and Wren were there kind of couple that are meant to be – blissfully happy, deeply in love and unquestionably committed. He grinned, the devastating kind that always took me out at the knees. With everything I have.”Įverything in me soared.

He’s an ex-military, security expert and runs his own company, but before he was the badass that we know him as, he was a teenager from a small town who was madly in love with his childhood friend-turned girlfriend, Wren. Readers of Cowles books will have met Holt Hartley before, as he has popped up in a couple of her books now. The start of a new series from Catherine Cowles, this is a beautifully romantic and swoony second-chance-romance with a feisty heroine, a damaged hero desperate to make amends, drama, suspense, and an epic love story. And Holt might not be able to save me this time… As tragedy strikes again, I’m the one left in the crosshairs. Before long, my walls come crashing down and I’m just hoping that taking this second chance isn’t as reckless as it feels.īut not everyone is happy that Holt has returned. With his burning stare and lingering touches. And he doesn’t show any signs of leaving the small town that has been my refuge.Īs stolen moments turn to days, Holt’s around every corner. To get back a little bit of all we’ve lost. And he’s no longer a boy, but a man with shadows in his eyes and demons haunting him. One night-a single moment-cost me everything.

Tangled Hearts by Catherine Vale