The Long Way Home by Liv Arnett

Rachel thought she’d buried her first love alongside her brother.

For the last four years, Rachel has spent her time becoming exactly who everyone needs her to be. The dependable daughter. The easy girlfriend. The strong survivor. The supportive best friend.

But when she walks into her best friend’s wedding and locks eyes with Rhett, her carefully constructed world starts to fracture.
Her brother’s best friend.
The one love she has never been able to forget.
The only person who has ever seen past the mask.
Rhett left town carrying guilt and a promise to protect her, convinced that walking away was the only way to keep her safe from the wreckage of his own broken family. But loving Rachel was never something he could outrun—and seeing her again makes one truth impossible to ignore: leaving was the greatest mistake of his life.

The Long Way Home tells the story of the invisible strings that bind us, the courage it takes to confront loss and the love that demands we risk everything to find our way back to the person we were always meant to be.

Choosing Rhett means dismantling the life Rachel built to survive.
Loving Rachel means risking the one person Rhett has never been able to lose.

Some loves don’t take the easy road. Some are worth taking the long way for.