New York hero firefighter Nick Carlucci finally couldn't take the nightmares, the media, his own demons any longer and headed to Tribute, TX, to help his newly widowed aunt. And he likes it there in that small town where no one recognizes him, so he takes a job as janitor at the local high school. His nightmares are under control, and things are going well for him, until the day New York reporter Shannon Malloy tracks him down, determined to gain his help in putting some of her own demons to rest. Not to mention giving her a new chapter for the book she's writing.
Nick wants no part of spilling his guts for all the world to read. Wants nothing to do with Shannon. Except . . . she pulls at something inside him that he didn't know had survived that September day in New York, when so much else was lost. Can she be right? Can telling his story help him heal? It can't be that simple. Until she finally gets him to talk, and he starts to feel different, about himself, about Shannon. Could they make a go of it, the two of them? Could they heal each other? Nick only knows that when Shannon leaves Tribute, he will never be the same again. Unless . . .
