From bestselling author R. C. Stephens comes a compelling story of heartbreak, sacrifice, and the test of true love.



I fell in love with Thomas Wells and knew he was my forever. I was sixteen when I gave him my heart. Our love was the kind to last a lifetime. But Thomas was broken.



The first day we met he told me he was going to become a Navy SEAL. At nineteen he enlisted. At twenty he married me. At twenty-five he left me pregnant and didn't turn back.



I knew he was suffering . . . I also knew I couldn't save him.



He left me broken. I was scared and alone. Until I met Ryder St. John, a wounded soldier . . .



He was lost. I was lost. Together we made sense. I fell in love again . . .



What Ryder forgot to mention was that he held a secret so explosive that it could shatter both our worlds.



Contains mature themes.