Two fractured hearts.

One chance to correct the mistakes from their past.

Delaware "Del" Macklin has made a lot of choices in his life. Becoming a deputy, then sheriff instead of working full-time at the family ranch was a difficult decision...but it had been his to make. The one choice that mattered most was taken from him when the girl he'd fallen for left Whiskey Bend, creating a hole in his life and his heart.

Amy Peterson is on a mission, one leading her back to Whiskey Bend after years away. Certain her mother's death wasn't an accident, she refuses to allow threats or intimidation to stop her search for the truth. Encountering Del Macklin, the boy she fell for in school, could either be an answer to her prayers or a distraction she can't afford.

Finding Amy after all these years is a welcome surprise. Discovering the reason she's in town, and the danger surrounding her, isn't. As sheriff, he's required to follow the law, even if it means sending her to jail. As a man, his protective instincts roar to life, urging him to guard her in every way possible.

As the mystery of her mother's death unfolds, feelings they'd both ignored when younger come thundering back, complicating a situation already thick with emotion.

Can Amy find the courage to risk her heart for another chance?

Will Del ignore the warnings and seize the choice taken from him years before?

Del, book two in the Macklins of Whiskey Bend Contemporary Western Romance series, is a stand-alone, full-length novel with an HEA and no cliffhanger.