Hurt Like Me

Avery Finley thought she had finally escaped her high school bully, Garrett Hathaway. It had been ten years and the wounds had scarred, but they were healed. She never expected that he would come back into her life even more broken then he had once made her, caring for the only person who ever truly loved her. As much as she hates Garrett there is something about him, something that was there all those years ago, that draws her to him. It's hurt that has connected them for ten years and it's hurt that may be the path to true healing.Garrett had it all- money, women, drugs, booze, and trauma. His family tried everything to fix him, to cure him of his past, but he couldn't stop the darkness from catching up to him. After high school he finally hit rock bottom. Homeless and alone he found himself in the care of John, the father of the girl he once destroyed. When John has a stoke, Avery comes back to town and it would be so easy for her to return the favor and ruin his salvation, but she doesn't. Could it be that what they felt all those years ago, that pull below the hurt, could be his true redemption? Or will the darkness just take them both?