PROLOGUE
Lynn Rivers was the most beautiful creature he’d ever seen, and he’d loved her since the day he first laid eyes on her. She was maybe five years old then. He was older. Maybe he didn’t even know it at the time, but later, when he thought back, he did know it was love at first sight. She never knew.
Because she left before he could tell her.
So many times he’d tried to tell her, tried to show the depth of his feelings for her, tried to let her know just how perfect they were for each other.
But he always fell short. Always failed.
Until she’d chosen someone else and his world, no, his very soul, shattered. The pieces of that devastation still lay somewhere deep in the darkness of his mind, in ruin, discarded but not forgotten. His soul would never be whole again. Unless he cou
