The Year You Came Back

She’s chasing answers. He’s searching for peace. Love may be the only thing they find.

Drama therapist Kateri Grey never meant to return to the small coastal town of Herring Point. But when her company is chosen to launch a new creative program on the Maine coast—twenty years after the crash that took her father’s life and nearly her own—she drags her feet. The town still whispers about that night: the lost World War II heirloom her father died chasing, the secrets that fractured her family. After years of helping others heal, Kateri must finally confront her own story.

Detective Aaron Brogan has returned home, too, on forced leave, restless and unsure of his future. He doesn’t expect to run into Kateri—the girl whose tragedy once brushed against his own. Drawn into her search for answers, Aaron finds himself wanting more than just the truth: he wants a chance to be the person she can trust.

As long-buried clues surface, Kateri and Aaron discover something deeper than the mystery connecting them: new feelings from an old connection.