She swore she’d hate him forever. Forever is about to get complicated.
Breanna
I loved Mato before I understood what love was. The ranch hand’s son, my best friend, my first everything — until the summer before college, when I woke to a goodbye letter and a boy who was already gone.
So, I did the only thing I could, I swore I’d hate him forever. I built a life that proved I didn’t need him: my own veterinary practice, a farmhouse I’m restoring on my own, and walls high enough that no one gets to leave me again.
Then I walk into my family’s barn to check on a horse and there he is. Older, broader, those familiar dark eyes fixed on me like no time has passed at all.
He says he’s home for good. He says he’s sorry. He looks at me like I’m still his. The trouble is, every time he’s near, the walls I spent ten years building start to feel a whole lot less solid.
Mato
Leaving Breanna was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I told myself it was the right thing to do. She had the whole world ahead of her. Back then, all I had was a bunk in her father’s ranch house and nothing of my own to offer the girl I loved.
So, I enlisted. I gave the Marines ten years of my life, and I never stopped carrying her with me. Now I’m home on Oklahoma soil, back near the ranch and the family that loved me as one of their own, with one mission left: prove to the woman I never stopped loving that this time, I’m staying.
She wants to hate me. I don’t blame her. I’ll take the cold shoulder, the sharp words, the locked-up heart, and I’ll spend every day earning my way back through them.
Because some things you only get one shot at. And some things, if you’re very lucky, you get two.
Unbreakable Bonds is a slow-burn, full-length second-chance romance and the final book in the Harlow Springs Ranch interconnected series.First love rekindled, a small-town homecoming, and a hard-won HEA that brings the whole Harlow family full circle.A standalone with no cliffhanger. FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
This emotional second-chance story touches on pregnancy loss and infertility, and themes of addiction within a secondary storyline. These are handled as part of a hopeful, healing arc, but may be difficult for some readers.
