Suzie thought she had left the past behind. Returning home was supposed to be a fresh start for her and Amelia. A new school, a stable home, and the warmth of family were all she wanted for her daughter. Running the family bakery should have been simple, a chance to rebuild the life she had worked so hard to create. But then he walked in. Richard. The man she swore she’d never see again—the man who had no place in her new life. Dressed in power and control, surrounded by bodyguards, he wasn’t the same man five years ago. And when he looked at her, when he touched her, the memories she had spent years burying clawed their way back to the surface. As the walls she built begin to crumble, Suzie finds herself questioning everything, her choices, her secrets, and whether coming home was a mistake. Because Richard isn’t the only part of her past that refuses to stay buried… And some truths are impossible to outrun.