It was the happiest day of my life. Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue. All I had to do was say my vows. Then they asked if there were any objections. And he stood up. Jaxon Steele. A face from my past. A face I never wanted to see again. So beautifully cruel, so agonizingly wrong. Just like his objection. Why is he back after all these years? Why did he stop my wedding? My questions are frozen when a gunshot rings out. There's blood on my dress. Jaxon isn't here for love. He is here for revenge. And he doesn't care whose blood he has to spill to gain it. What he wants? Ten years of my life for the ten years he served in prison. I loved him once, shame on me. Making me love him twice? Shame on him. But I was always fool when it came to Jaxon Steel. Would I give him ten years? Or forever? This is a full length Dark Second Chance Standalone Romance.

Promise me you’ll love again. I hear the last words my wife said to me every day. A promise I have never and will never fulfill. My heart is stone. Impenetrable. I don’t care. I spent twenty years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit. The punishment is what I deserved. For not being there for her. I’m on one mission now. And it isn’t to find love like I promised. It’s to kill the man that killed my wife. It’s near the anniversary of her death now and I’m in the woods, camping. Hunting. Keeping my skills sharp. And that’s when I happen upon her. She’s stumbling naked in the forest, cut, bruised, and half dead. I should give her to the authorities, but something about her makes the stone of my heart crumble a bit. But years ago, I made a promise I couldn’t keep. And this girl is better off without me. I’m tarnished. No matter what, no matter how tempted, no matter how much I crave her touch, I cannot give in. Promises are made to me broken. But can I live with broken promises? The more I convince myself that I can, the more whiskey says I can’t. Love is the worst bender you can go on.