Hearts Entangled In Yearning’s Tide by Donna Kessler

HE IS THE TORMENT SHE CAN’T FORGET.
SHE IS THE SALVATION HE CAN’T TOUCH.

Amelia isn’t scared of the dark. She’s scared of the quiet, when her body remembers before her mind can catch up. She’s scared of the way grief sits in her throat like it belongs there, of the way certain places and certain voices can turn her back into the girl who didn’t know if she’d make it out.
Caiden lives with his own ghosts, the kind that don’t leave when you open your eyes. He tells himself he can keep his distance. That staying away is the only decent thing he can do. But the moment Amelia is in front of him again, all that restraint turns into obsessive yearning and desire.
They don’t fall in love the easy way. They clash. They trigger. They unravel. And still, they reach.
Because wanting someone can feel like drowning, and letting go can feel like dying.

Amelia has returned home carrying more than the weight of the wilderness, she carries the truth she tried for years to ignore. The boy who tormented her, the boy she swore she hated, is no longer just a ghost from childhood. He’s a man she can’t stop wanting, even as every instinct warns her to run.

Caiden has spent his life fighting the monster he was told he would become. Anger was once his shield, cruelty his armor. But now, with Amelia back in his orbit, the walls he built are cracking. And beneath them lies something far more powerful than rage. A hunger to be seen, forgiven, loved.

A sudden loss forces them back to their hometown. As Amelia confronts the chaos left by her mother’s instability and the wounds she never learned to name, Caiden begins facing the darkness he inherited and the shame that binds him to it. Their pull toward each other is relentless, dangerous. A tide that drags them under even as they fight to stay afloat. But love born from old scars comes with its own brutality. Healing demands surrender. Desire demands honesty. And forgiveness? That might demand breaking.

BOOK 2 IN CHILDHOOD ENEMIES TO LOVERS DARK ROMANCE SERIES. EMOTIONALLY IN DEPTH WITH THEMES OF TRAUMA, OBSESSION, FORCED PROXIMITY, FIXATION, DESIRE, PTSD, PUSH/PULL TENSION, HATE VS. HUNGER