My Sweet Dollie, You Have to Love Me: Alternative Cover Edition

Two children bound together by tragedy shouldn't have been each other's salvation—but for Dollie and Ambrose, that impossible connection was the only light either of them had.

Growing up worlds apart in everything that mattered, Dollie and Ambrose circle each other warily until a devastating childhood trauma strips them both raw and forges something unbreakable between them. For years, they are each other's anchor, each other's reason. Then Dollie's parents are murdered, and in the chaos of grief and fear, her words send the boy she loves to prison for a decade.

Now Ambrose is free.

He spent ten years in a cell writing letters Dollie never answered, clinging to memories of a girl who chose silence over him. He should have used that time to build resentment into something clean and manageable. Instead, the feeling that survived behind bars is far more dangerous than hate—and far more consuming.

When Dollie returns to the family home for the first time since that night, she doesn't know that Ambrose is already there, watching from the shadows, cataloguing every detail of the woman she's become. He isn't ready to reveal himself. Not yet. He needs her to understand what her silence cost him first.

In this breathtaking romantic suspense, Cori Zahara crafts a story of fractured love, impossible guilt, and the terrifying realization that some obsessions never die—they simply