A secret that shouldn't have been kept. A secret that changed her life. Caught in the middle of a drug raid, Poppy Herrera, or now known as Cara Addams, is sent off to small town Stoney Creek, Georgia to await her trial date. A trial she has no idea or understanding about, only adding to the confusion as to why she's stuck in this gossipy small town. All she wants is to go home, the last thing she wants is her ex-boyfriend to walk into the bar she is working at. But what she wants versus what she needs is shattered when he asks for her forgiveness and she finds out her boyfriend back home may have been one of the six dead and several injured in the drug raid that brought her to Stoney Creek in the first place. What is she supposed to do now, find a way to start a new life in this small town or find her way home? tropes within this HEA, suspenseful romance, small town romance, second chance love, men in uniform