Hold on to Hope (Hardcover)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A best friends-to-lovers stand-alone romance from New York Times Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson...</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Evan Bryant wasn't your typical hero.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But he was mine.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Broken by the worlds' standards he was still the strongest boy I would ever know.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My best friend. The boy I'd given everything to. My heart my body and the promise of forever.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The day I'd needed him most he walked away.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He left me shattered and questioning the love I'd thought we'd shared.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Three years later I wasn't prepared for him to return to Gingham Lakes.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It wouldn't have mattered if he wasn't the most beautiful man I'd ever seen.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My fingers still would have ached to caress his skin.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My body still would have begged to get lost in his touch.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And my heart . . . it would have always sung his name.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But time changes things. With it secrets that could ruin everything. </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can we find a way to love again or have the fears of our past stolen the hope of our forever . . .</span></p><p><br></p>