
But more importantly, he had a one-way ticket out of Pelican Bay and far away from the family who used love as currency and whose high expectations were the law of the land. Smart, gorgeous, and popular, the baseball phenom was well on his way to a life filled with fame and fortune. Pelican Bay’s golden boy, Dallas Kent, had the quintessential perfect life. When he’s forced to use the last of his own money to keep from losing the family home, desperation has him turning to the one man he’d hoped never to see again…Įven if I could speak, there wouldn’t be anyone there to listen… But just as he’s ready to get his life back on track, Nolan gets the call he’s been dreading.Īfter a stroke leaves his father a partial invalid, duty-bound Nolan returns to Pelican Bay and a life he’s spent years trying to forget. The betrayal and ensuing scandal leaves the violinist’s career in shambles and with barely enough money to start fresh somewhere beyond his vindictive ex’s powerful reach. But success breeds envy, and when Nolan’s benefactor and lover decides Nolan has flown high enough, he cruelly clips Nolan’s wings. Ten years after leaving his small Minnesota hometown in his rearview mirror for what Nolan Grainger was sure would be the last time, life has decided to throw the talented musician a curveball and send him back to the town he lived in but was never really home.Īt twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country. I’ve spent years hoping someone would finally hear me.
