Pain, be it physical or mental, isn’t a weakness. It’s a strength. It means you care about something so deeply that you’re willing to hurt for it.

After an exhausting hospital visit and choosing to press charges against her abusive ex-boyfriend, Abby focuses on settling into a new normal with Dallas. Things are looking up as she starts mending old relationships and gets nominated for a literary award. Still, she’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because it always drops. She thinks she’s been through the worst of it, but when the legal process begins, it proves more difficult than anticipated. As the stress builds and more piles onto her plate, new secrets emerge that she never saw coming.

Dallas is doing everything he can to take care of Abby after she returns home. As the baseball tournament moves forward, he still needs to nail down a career choice despite not knowing what the future holds. He doesn’t want to ruin the peace she’s finally found amid the chaos. But he has no choice. The case against Abby’s ex starts on shaky ground while his family dynamics continue to fall apart. And when secrets he’s successfully kept hidden surface, he’s worried one night might have ruined everything he’s built with Abby.

When Dallas’s secrets collide with Abby’s past, will the impact end their story before it’s rewritten?

Book 2 of 2 in the Love in Pieces Duet