At eighteen, I walked away from the small beach town I had grown up in, for good. My parents had just been murdered, and I know it was because of me. I was young, scared, and stupid, and it cost me the love of my life—Kyler Wiley. Four years later, I’m back. They found me, but this time I’m not running away. I’m back. Back to where we met, fell in love, and planned a future. The one where he is now a cop, just like my dad. I never expected to run into him the same day I got back to town, but I did, walking the same beach where our dreams began and ended. One look at him and the old memories rush through my head. My chest aches at the loss, the emptiness. I yearn for him to pull me into his arms and tell me everything will be alright. I’m not the scared teenager I was—intimidated by the notes, the unknown. Desperate to escape this small town, determined to save him from harm. But he’s learned to guard his heart, and trust won’t come easily. How do I tell him I lied? I never stopped loving him. I just needed them to think I was. I had to keep him safe. Maybe one day he will forgive me, and we can be friends again.
Author
An Oregon native and Amazon international best-selling author, SM Stryker started writing as a way to explore the aspects of the human condition. Her stories take you on a personal journey in which her characters learn something about themselves, weaving true love stories about people destined to be together. SM. Stryker is the dirty alter ego of a quietly introverted mortgage broker behind the stories. While she might be a wife (to her biggest cheerleader), mother of four adult daughters and grandmother of four on the outside, there's nothing but hot and steamy fantasies being plotted beneath the surface. Known for her real-life emotionally charged, unpredictable, suspenseful but heart-warming page-turning romances novels, Stryker's stories touch on normally unspoken subjects. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real. Heroines that fight their demons to become survivors and their sexy but sensitive alpha hero's that will fight beside the women they love in their journey to find their own solace. Stryker tries to use her platform as an author to raise awareness about sexual abuse of children and adults. Although quiet by nature, she loves to hear from her readers! She has shared more of the events of her life in many of her other books. TO JOIN MY MAILING LIST AND TO RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF NEVER FORGOTTEN LOVE, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE. http://facebook.com/Author.S.M.Stryker www.smstryker.com shelly@smstryker.com
