Last Hope

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Darkness has followed me my whole life. It has a name a face and a heartbeat that once nearly ended mine.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> I thought I'd escaped it until the night it came back to finish what it started. Broken and desperate I found myself on Riley Burns's doorstep the last person I expected to save me and the only one I've never been able to forget.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Riley Burns. The man everyone wants a piece of-music mogul legend-maker heartbreaker. But the moment our eyes met months ago he saw through the façade I wear like armor. He saw </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>me.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> And now against all reason he's my safe place in a world that's anything but safe.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Riley has his own ghosts-family secrets that could destroy everything he's built. Yet when I crash back into his life something shifts. Together we're two broken souls standing in the wreckage daring to believe there's light beyond the pain.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the past doesn't let go easily. And when the darkness I ran from finds me again the question isn't whether Riley can protect me-it's whether love is enough to save us both.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because sometimes the heart's greatest risk is letting someone in.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Last Hope is a captivating journey of love hope and the power of second chances. It is a standalone novel in the Carter Hills Band universe. A tale of resilience and second chances in a world where love and danger intertwine. It is a domestic abuse survivor love story for fans of</em><strong> <em>Still Beating</em> <em>Archer's Voice</em> </strong>or<strong> <em>Safe Haven</em>.</strong></p>