Falling Hard

He came home broken. She never expected to be the one to put him back together. After surviving the battlefield, Caleb Maddox returns to the quiet town of Oak Haven with scars no one can see. Haunted by the past and convinced he's unworthy of peace, he isolates himself from the world—until a curvy, stubborn bookstore owner crashes into his life like a summer storm. Grace Donovan isn't looking for love, especially not with a brooding former soldier carrying invisible wounds. But when she offers him kindness, Caleb offers her honesty. What begins as tentative friendship ignites into a passion neither of them saw coming. As secrets unravel and storms—both literal and emotional—return, Caleb must decide if he’s ready to stop surviving... and start living. A small-town military romance about healing, hope, and the kind of love that refuses to quit.