The Pieces You Kept

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>First loves. Broken hearts. Second chances.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Laney Thorton</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I never thought I'd meet the love of my life at nineteen but the second I saw Bowen Wright up on that stage I was a goner. He was sweet sexy had a voice that could make you weak in the knees...and turned out to be nothing but a lying sack of-it doesn't matter. I'd been ready to change my </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>whole</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> life to be with him until the day he broke my heart. Determined to forget that summer ever happened I moved on with my life and never looked back...except that's a lie and despite how pathetic it is Bowen still has a piece of my heart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But when a deathbed confession from my mother changes everything I thought I knew about that awful day I know I have to do the unthinkable and see him one last time...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Bowen Wright</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I have everything I've ever wanted: a huge record deal hit after hit on country radio a sold-out stadium tour...but the one thing that would make my life truly complete is the one thing I can never have. I'd made damn sure of that when I'd shattered Laney's heart fifteen years ago. I know she moved on and probably still curses my name but it kills me that I'll never get the chance to tell her the truth-until the night she shows up backstage demanding answers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will the truth even matter after all these years? Can we possibly have a second chance at forever?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or do broken hearts just stay broken forever?</span></p><p></p><p></p>