He never should have let her go. His first love, his first everything.

The one the young doctor can't forget.

Ten years later, David James knows she's not the same girl he loved.

But he sees Kairi now with her haunted eyes - and he remembers.

Kairi Morrigan returned to Howell Mountain to hide and make a plan.

Once an international fugitive, she's now a part of a secretive black ops team.

Her return home is temporary. A shelter without a paper trail.

She never meant to run into David. He's building a life here, one she never intended to be a part of. David's good, caring, honest. She's on the run and tortured.

She knows she shouldn't but she hungers for his touch, to lose herself in him one more time.

She lost one great love to the people who betrayed her.

The one thing she won't do is risk another person she loves.

The one thing she can never give him, or her enemy, is a second chance.

Breathe is a stand-alone romantic suspense novel. No cliffhangers, no prior interaction necessary. Breathe is set in both Napa and Santa Barbara, California, featuring steamy vineyard romance and love under the threat of an epic blackout.