Finding Hayes ~ Special Edition Paperback (Magnolia Falls Series Special Edition)

When your childhood best friend abandons you without a word, the last thing you want is to find her standing in the middle of your small town — looking like she never left and expecting a warm welcome.

Hayes Covington has built his life around walls. As Magnolia Falls' most brooding firefighter, he charges into burning buildings without flinching, but the thought of letting Savannah Abbott back into his heart? That's a fire he refuses to fight. She was his person once — his neighbor, his confidant, his North Star — and then she disappeared, leaving him to rebuild himself from the rubble of her absence. He survived. He adapted. He learned that trusting people is a luxury he can no longer afford.

Then Savannah walks back into Magnolia Falls with that devastating smile and a reason to stay, and everything Hayes carefully constructed starts to crack.

She's still too warm, too bright, too everything — the kind of sunshine that exposes every shadow he's been hiding in. He wants to stay angry. He's very good at staying angry. But when circumstances throw them together under the same roof in a marriage-of-convenience arrangement neither of them expected, keeping his walls up becomes the hardest thing Hayes has ever done.

Savannah left once before without