Authors Note: Though this can be read as a standalone. I strongly recommend starting from the beginning of the series. If I Break, Our history made things harder. We were associates out of convenience. We tolerated each other. I never saw her that way. She never saw me that way. She and I were never meant to be friends. You're not supposed to fall for your best friend's enemy, even if the enemy is YOUR ex-best friend. This isn't the story of falling...

When you're heartbroken, it lies beneath everything that you do. It's in all of who you are. Foreshadows who you'll be. It hides underneath your smile, rests between your laugh, revels in your tears and taunts your every thought. You wish it away but are too terrified to let it go . . . When Cal first disappeared I swore my heart had broken, and before all of this is over I swear it will shatter into pieces.

Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at twenty-one, married him at twenty-two, and had her heart broken at twenty-three when he walked out of their marriage. At twenty-five, while raising their daughter on her own, Lauren is finally moving on with her life . . . until she learns the reason for Cal's abandonment. The walls she had carefully built around her begin to collapse. The day she meets Chris, all those feelings she thinks she has bottled...