Sterling Brick (alternative cover)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love wasn't part of the blueprint when high school sweethearts reunite in their small town. But this former military man never forgot the girl he left behind and he's more determined than ever to rebuild their relationship brick by brick and heart by heart.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Getting locked in the men's restroom during my mother's funeral wasn't exactly how I expected to run into my high school sweetheart. The one who got away. The one who broke my heart.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I could toss the busted doorknob in my hand at him but I'd prefer to get the heck away. Because twenty years later Knox Sylver isn't a teenage boy anymore but a broad-shouldered thick scruff man with eyes that still look at me like I'm the only person in the room.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a newly divorced mother of two teenagers it's been a long time since anyone </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>sees</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> me. And Knox is definitely watching.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unfortunately he made choices in the past and I wasn't one of them.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>According to him that is ancient history. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Also according to him it's never too late for a second chance. He's out to prove he's solid and stable having returned to our small hometown in a better place after a career in the military. He's a local hero as a fireman and he wants to rekindle the flame between us.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm the one with decisions this round.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do I stay where memories hurt? Or do I leave my past and Knox behind me again?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>