Lavender Garden

Half a dozen years slipped away after Noah vanished with the Shire family’s most treasured heirloom in his grasp—and left behind the only boy he couldn’t bring himself to kill. Now, worn down by regret and drowning each day in cheap liquor, Noah learns that young Henry Shire can’t claim his inheritance until that very ring is returned. Haunted by guilt and driven by the ache to set things right, Noah slips back into the Shire estate under cover of darkness, ring in hand. But fate has its own plans: he’s discovered by Henry—no longer the frightened child of old. In that moment, the past surges back, tangled up in obsession, unanswered longing, and a debt that refuses to stay buried.