In My Heart by Nora Everly

He never touched another woman. Never wanted to. She was always his—even when she didn’t know it.
He came home from the Army broken and full of regret. She came home a widow, exhausted and starting over.

Lily never planned to return to Sweetbriar, Oregon. But at thirty, widowed with a six-year-old and a baby in tow, home is the only place left to go. She’s made peace with the life she built—and with the hole left in her heart since Luke walked away.
Luke never stopped loving her. Not when he left to protect her from himself. Not through years of silence, unopened letters, and the kind of grief that hollows a person out. Coming home meant facing everything he’d lost—and everything he’d done wrong.

Now they’re back in the same small town, tangled up in the same close-knit family, and the feelings neither of them could ever completely bury are rising to the surface.
But Lily’s been through too much to risk her heart on hope.
And Luke knows that this time, love won’t be enough—he has to earn her trust back, one careful step at a time.

In My Heart is a slow-burn, emotionally rich second-chance romance about two people who never truly let go and the courage it takes to choose each other again.