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When We Were Sinners: A Past She Fled. A Desire She Can't Escape. A Marriage Caught in the Crossfire.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 18 2025
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Returning to the small Southern town she once ran from, Elise Porter never expected to collide with the one man capable of unraveling her all over again-Roman Hale, the brooding pastor's son turned devoted husband. Their history is a wildfire buried under ashes, but one look is all it takes to resurrect everything she tried to forget: the chemistry, the heartbreak, and the unsolved fracture that destroyed them both.
But Roman is no longer the boy who loved her with reckless devotion. He is a man bound to a fragile marriage and tethered to secrets that he cannot confess-not to Elise, not to himself, and certainly not to the community that worships him. As Elise's return stirs old emotions, cracks begin to splinter through the life Roman built, exposing the lies that were holding it together. And while desire pulls them dangerously close, guilt, duty, and betrayal twist around them like barbed wire.
When long-buried truths claw to the surface, both Elise and Roman must face a devastating question: Was their first love a blessing... or the original sin that doomed them from the start? When We Were Sinners is a gripping, slow-burn tale of heartbreak, redemption, forbidden desire, and the reckoning that comes when the past refuses to stay buried.
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