Rose Barrett has a type.
Apparently, her type is six feet of brooding single dad who broke her heart, moved to her town, and had the audacity to enroll his daughter in her kindergarten class.
She's had a year to get her head straight. A year of putting herself back together, piece by stubborn piece. She is absolutely not prepared for Trevor Hale—the new cop in town—to walk back into her life with his two kids, his sad eyes, and his infuriating patience.
Trevor moved to Sweetbriar for a fresh start—closer to family, better hours, a slower pace for his kids after years of holding everything together through a marriage and divorce that left him gutted. He also moved here for Rose, and he's not pretending otherwise. He hurt her. He knows it. And he's willing to do whatever it takes to earn his way back in—one phone call, one flower delivery, one exasperating, patient, hopeful gesture at a time.
Rose has spent a year convinced she was easy to leave—and Trevor has spent that same year knowing exactly how wrong he was to go. Getting her to trust him again means she has to stop running, and he has to prove he's finally, truly ready to stay.
Heart Words is a funny, warm, and emotionally devastating second-chance romance about the girl who always felt like second place—and the man who's determined to prove she was always first.
