Finding Nora by Ripley Proserpina

Nora Leslie never searched for love, but love found her.

Nora’s twenty-year existence revolves around one thing— survival. Then one day while substitute teaching at the local high school, she is faced with a bigger challenge than paying the rent. In a hail of gunfire, she makes a split second decision that saves the lives of her students and changes hers forever.
Now, Nora is a suspect in the worst tragedy to ever strike the town and she is thrust into the spotlight as the villain, instead of the hero.

But at her darkest moment, the light finds her.

A chance meeting introduces her to Ryan Valore, a young law student searching to outrun the guilt of his past. With the world turned against her, Nora accepts his help, and the help of his roommates, a group of guys with pasts as dark as her own.
Is it possible that Nora is everything they never believed they deserved?