His To Hold

<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p>In Willow Creek nothing stays secret for long. Every whispered</p><p>word every stolen glance every rumor tucked into morning coffee</p><p>at the diner spreads like wind through the pines. For Claire</p><p>Bennett that kind of closeness was suffocating once. It's what sent</p><p>her away-to the city to a life she thought would be brighter freer</p><p>safer. She left behind her family her roots and the boy who had</p><p>been her first everything.</p>