A broken heart is only the beginning for her. Bookworm Annabelle Hart thinks she’s found the love of her life. But when her fiancé's philandering ways shatter their happy future, she decides she’s through playing the victim. Now, rather than read about life, she wants to live it—starting with a sabbatical from her editing job in Chicago to travel the world. But the past refuses to let her go so easily. He thinks he has his life figured out. After watching the woman he thought he loved walk away from him, Holden Blackburn is still picking up the pieces. Content with his life as the owner of an English Inn, just outside the sleepy town of Alton, he’s living his new and peaceful normal. That is, at least, until Annabelle stumbles into his life, and he’s overwhelmed by a desire to learn all he can about her. Now if only he can get her to stay in one place long enough. Will they risk their hearts on a new chance at love? When her past returns in a way she can’t ignore, Anna panics, running from any possible future with Holden. She’s determined to keep her life from falling apart again, but she soon discovers the only place she feels safe is in Holden’s arms. But some things even he can’t protect her from.

Kenzie feels like she’s suffocating, smothered by her own life.After graduating from college, she assumed she would marry Ben and start the perfect family. The problem is, she’s not sure she wants the happily ever after, at least not with him.Aiden is an expert at loving them and leaving them.Growing up with his billionaire abusive father, he is certain he has zero interest in relationships or the pain they bring. But his new photography assistant has him questioning his choice to keep everyone at arm's length. Is Kenzie enough to make him risk the pain?Just when they all think the pieces of her lives are finally falling into place, a tragedy leaves everyone questioning the things that truly matter to them.A heart will be left broken; the question is, who's heart will it be?