He knew what she was running from. He just had to get her to say it. Quinn Sutherland came back to Charleston eleven months early. Her transfer paperwork said personal hardship. SSA Dakota Dunn took one look at her in the office on Tuesday and knew it meant something worse. She was thinner. She was wearing long sleeves in August. There was a ring on her left hand. And when he came in to shake her hand, she stepped backward. Dakota had kissed her once, five years ago, when she was his twenty-two-year-old intern. She froze. They never spoke of it again. He had been quietly in love with her ever since. Now she was back. And the man whose ring she was wearing was going to be a problem. PROXIMITY is a slow-burn romance about a survivor, the federal agent who has loved her since she was twenty-two, and the work of learning to be near someone safe again.