This book was re-published in 2022 as Dark Eyed Devil Hayden Cole was good times dressed like bad news. Dark hair falling over eyes that had seen too much. Full lips curving into a smile that set my body on fire. The way he disliked everything about my sheltered world, except me. I spent years in love with the groundkeeper’s nephew. In the darkness, in the silence, our hearts spoke the same language. Until he left without a word and tore mine right out of my chest. Ten years later he’s back from the Navy. He’s every inch the rogue I remember—broken smiles and amber eyes. And he’s determined to fix the wounds of the past Lily Marchand was everything I knew I could never have. The golden child of my uncle’s rich employer. She has always been so painfully out of my reach. I’d known it, and I reached for her anyway, and it led to disaster. Ten years might have passed, but she can still bring me to my knees with shame. As if I didn’t break my own goddamn heart by leaving her back then. But a decade can change a lot of things. This time I’m not giving up without a fight—not when I know she feels the same. Her parents might still hate me and her brothers might want to kill me. But there is no way I’m letting them run me out of town again. Some love stories are simple. But ours never was. ✔️ Forbidden love ✔️ Second-chance romance ✔️ Broody, tortured hero ✔️ Feisty, genuine heroine ✔️ Standalone