📗 Quiet, reserved Ty Johnson was no stranger to broken dreams and heartache. As a professional baseball player having just been called up to the major leagues, a devastating motorcycle accident crushes those dreams forever as well as his engagement. Eight years later and still bitter about relationships, Ty was not prepared for the encounter with the beautiful, feisty Riley Garland! Southern belle Riley Garland was adamant that she would not end up like her mother. She had watched her mother be abused by a man Riley couldn't stand for most of her life. It broke her heart. Her mother and Gram were all she had in this world. When Riley won a cupcake baking contest, it set the wheels in motion for her to leave Hope, Alabama, and start a new life in New York. She vowed she would never let a man into her heart. That was before she met Ty Johnson. Riley knows he is in horrible pain, and she is able to take the pain away. But is she willing to take that risk?