Protect and serve

the long version

Police detective Jason Hightower is flooded with memories when Penny Keys comes home to New Jersey. After fifteen years, he still wants to understand why she loved, lied to and left him. And he needs to know before she disappears from his life again....Penny came home for family reasons, not to face her difficult past...or the man she still loves. But Jason is determined to have answers--answers that it breaks her heart to give. And it seems nothing will keep Jason from the truth this time. Or hold him back from what he wants to protect and serve the most--their chance for a future together.