Be brave. Just for sixty seconds. Twenty breaths.

Everly Kemper knows how to be brave--she's had to be from the moment she rode her horse to the sheriff's station to save the young girl her father had kidnapped to the day she came back to that same small town in hopes of atoning for all the damage he'd done.

She should've known that Hayes Easton would hate her. How could he not when it was her father who had nearly destroyed his family. Everly sees nothing but anguish and anger from the moment he arrives at her falling down cabin, that sheriff's star shining so brightly on his uniform.

But Hayes is a good man, a noble one. Someone who channeled his pain into a career spent protecting those around him. So, when the threats begin, he steps in to keep Everly safe. And they discover that maybe they never knew the other at all.

As the sparks between them ignite into something deeper, they discover that darkness still lurks around the edges of their town. And in it someone who will do anything to make Everly pay...