Steadfast

Steadfast is the second book in Sarina Bowen's True North series, set in the small Vermont town of Colebury. Jude Nickel lost everything the day he crashed his car into a tree, killing a passenger — an act that sent him to prison and cost him the life he'd built.

Three years later, in recovery and trying to rebuild, Jude returns to Colebury, where work is scarce for a man with his record. His reappearance stuns Sophie Haines: Jude is the man who killed her brother, and the man she once loved. With Sophie's father — the town's police chief — dead set against any reconciliation, and the whole town watching, Sophie and Jude have to decide whether the connection between them is worth the cost of reopening old wounds.

A small-town, second-chance romance about guilt, forgiveness, and the people who won't let you become only your worst day.