When Elliot Marino leaves the police force due to a career-ending injury, it sends him back to Avonbury to work with his parents at the family restaurant., He’s angry at the world, chasing after a ghost for the last five years. One he’ll never catch. But his need to protect is on alert once Leila Hayes walks into his life. Leila Hayes is running from a past she’d rather forget. Terrified her family will discover where she is, she knows her secrets won't stay hidden. Secrets can’t be outrun. When she meets Elliot, for the first time ever safety and peace wash over her in a way she’s never experienced before. Even if her intuition is screaming at her to leave her walls up and protect her heart. But when her past comes back to haunt her, it threatens not only her, but Elliot and his family as well. Will they be able to heal each other and find happiness, or will the legend of The Storyteller’s Cottage falter for the first time