Lick of Fire: A Second Chance Romance

You can't escape fate, no matter how fast you run. That was a lesson hard learned for me.
I spent years trying to bury my past, but my future held skeletons bleaker than the ones I'd left behind.
Darkness follows me everywhere I go, hanging over my shoulders like a scythe. A byproduct of my bad karma.
For so long, I refused to even look at my hometown on a postcard. That is until trouble comes knocking at my door, and I'm forced to move to the one place I've been avoiding like the plague.
Ares ...