Redemption (Rising From the Ashes Book 1)

Accidentally assaulting a police officer is a terrible way to announce your return home — but for Mallory Jade, it's perfectly on brand.

Self-proclaimed walking disaster Mallory has spent years running from the small town that holds her most painful memories, chief among them Hayes Miller — her brother's best friend, the man who still owns every corner of her heart, and the officer she just elbowed in the face. Mortifying doesn't begin to cover it.

Hayes has built his life on structure and control, two things Mallory has always effortlessly dismantled. He's not the same reckless young man she left behind, and he has no intention of letting her back behind his carefully constructed walls. But small towns have long memories, and the demons Mallory fled haven't stayed quietly in the past where they belong.

In this gripping contemporary police romance, T Bell weaves together second-chance longing, raw emotional honesty, and shadows that feel genuinely unsettling as Mallory and Hayes navigate what was left unfinished between them. Both are carrying wounds they've never let fully heal, and coming face-to-face again forces a reckoning neither one is prepared for.

Redemption doesn't ask whether love survives time and distance — it asks whether two broken people have the courage to stop hiding long enough to find out.

With its wholesome heart, authentic characters, and a slow-burn tension that quietly crackles, this is the kind of story that stays with you long after the final