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What if your first heartbreak moved in next door? Kirsten Todd Meyer was my almost. Almost my first love. Almost the boy who would've chosen me if only he'd been brave enough. At eighteen, he kissed me by Warton's Creek and promised I wasn't a joke, but then let the crowd's laughter convince him otherwise. That kind of betrayal and humiliation settles deep, shaping what you think you deserve. For years, I stayed in half-relationships of being desired but never claimed. Therapy taught me the truth: I wasn't too much; he was too afraid, and that wasn't my fault. Now I'm thirty-four, an artist who finally knows her worth. And just when I thought I could leave that terrible chapter behind, the man who once made me doubt everything has bought the house next door. He's broader now, calmer, carrying the kind of regret you can see before he even opens his mouth. And no matter how many times I tell myself I'm over him, the pull between us feels dangerously familiar. But I remember what shrinking felt like. I won't do it again. If he wants me now, he'll have to say it out loud, where everyone can hear. Todd I didn't lose Kirsten Kim because I didn't love her. I lost her because I was a goddamn coward. Back then, one cruel laugh was all it took for me to step away from the best thing that ever happened to me. Sixteen years later, I've done a lot of growing, built things, fixed things, and learned what real strength looks like. And somehow, fate brought me right back to Clairborn: to her. She looks at me like a locked door, and I deserve that. But I'm not the same boy who hid behind pride. I'll mow her lawn, fix her porch light, and show up every day to be the man I should've been all those years ago. I can't rewrite the past, but I can prove she was always worth being seen with. Every act, every word, every day, it's my chance to show her until she believes it. I don't want secrecy or second chances in the dark. I want her - fully, publicly, forever. This time, I'm not hiding. Let the whole town see who I choose. *** Sixteen years after a humiliating high school incident shattered her heart, artist Kirsten Kim comes face-to-face with the boy who broke it - now her rugged, glowed-up, next-door neighbor. Todd Meyer has returned to Clairborn seeking redemption and one more shot, but Kirsten isn't the insecure teen he once abandoned. As old sparks reignite and buried wounds resurface, they must decide if love is worth risking everything again. Contains open-door romantic content. A novella that can be read in one or two evenings. Guaranteed HEA.

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