MINE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

My name is Holly Wells, and I came home to Pine Ridge for Christmas hoping the familiar streets would help me remember the year I lost to amnesia.

I didn't expect three men to react to my return with panic, relief... and longing.

Jax, the gruff mechanic who refuses to let me drive alone.

Theo, the charming paramedic who knows too much about my injuries.

Rhett, the ex-soldier who watches me like he once swore to protect me.

They all claim we were "close" before my accident. But none of them will tell me how close. Or why they look at me like I'm breaking their hearts just by forgetting.

Then the memories start coming back in fragments. Fire. Snow. A shadow chasing me through the dark. One of the men covered in blood.

And a journal I don't remember writing: "I'm getting close to the truth. If something happens to me..."

Someone ran me off the road fourteen months ago. Someone wanted me dead. And now that I'm digging again, they're sending messages: "Some things are better left forgotten."

But I'm remembering anyway. Remembering the corruption I was investigating. Remembering the danger I was in. Remembering that I loved all three of them-and they loved me back just as fiercely.

The killer is still in town. My mother is being threatened. And Christmas Eve is coming fast.

I need to remember everything before someone finishes what they started. Before I lose the men who became my home. Before this Christmas becomes my last.

They say you can't choose who you love. I say-why choose at all?