Barely breathing

the long version

Lexi Jewell left Scarlet Springs twelve years ago, vowing never to return to the small Colorado mountain town where she grew up. Now, here she is over thirty, out of a job and with little choice but to move back in with her eccentric father. Lexi knows it is just a matter of time before she runs into Austin Taylor, her first boyfriend and her first heartbreak. She is determined to show him she is over him, until he steps out of a pickup truck and back into her life, looking sexy as hell in his mountain ranger uniform.