Homeplace... When you think you've lost everything...Everywhere I turn since I came back to Mountain Meadow, she's there with her damn camera pointed in my direction. It's bad enough my accident cost me the photography career I love, but does she have to shove it in my face day after day? I came back to lick my wounds and find some peace, even if it is at the bottom of a bourbon bottle.Why won't she leave me alone?...and the only one who understands is the last person you would choose.He wears his pain like a badge of honor and makes everyone around him miserable. He thinks I'm nothing but a rich dilettante out to make him even unhappier. What he doesn't know...what no one knows...is just how well I understand the bone-deep pain of losing everything...and not being sure it's worth starting over.In this first of a new series, A Place to Heal, author Laura Browning returns to Mountain Meadow, Virginia for the story of Noah Allred, a man overwhelmed by personal tragedy. His enemies to lovers romance with newspaper reporter Amanda Brown takes you on a rough ride to happily ever after.