A year after losing her husband, Melanie Campbell’s life is stuck in park. An autumn trip to her Vermont hometown was supposed to help her move forward, but instead, she runs straight into her past: Nolan Whitaker, the former rock star she worshiped as a teen, now a lonely musician haunted by regrets.
Nolan lost everything to fame and addiction. Sober and searching for a way to build a safe life, he never expected to meet someone who sees the man behind the music. But his past mistakes—especially his fractured relationship with his daughter—threaten the fragile hope blooming between them.
An impulsive offer to join a cross-country road trip promises new horizons, but leaving their ghosts behind isn’t as simple as crossing state lines. Fueled by cheap coffee, classic rock, and raw vulnerability, Melanie and Nolan must navigate the messy terrain of second chances and decide if their journey is one they can take together—or if some roads are meant to be traveled alone.
Heartfelt, emotional, and achingly romantic, this is a story of healing, forgiveness, and the kind of love that’s worth the fight.
MM Travis has lived and worked in Anchorage and Seward, Alaska. She loves exploring the state and has done so on foot, and via vehicles, campers, kayak, seiner, ferry, and several sized aircraft, from Galbraith Lake above the arctic circle to the southeast panhandle, and from Kodiak to McCarthy and Tok.
A lover of all things salmon, she advocates for their protection and enjoys harvesting them. She’s caught salmon by hook, dipnet, fishwheel, seine net, and once by hand, from the Copper River, Gulkana, Kenai River, Prince William Sound, and the bays of Outer District of the North Gulf Coast of Alaska.
She is the author of over twenty books, from non-fiction to romance, and has collaborated with Max Travis on a commercial fishing family saga based in Alaska. She loves writing contemporary romance with happy endings, often with second chance, small town, and ‘fish out of water’ tropes.