Searching for Pandora by Jen Talty

Blaze Wright is a man on the run from his past, seeking solace in all the wrong places. After a bitter divorce and a tragic loss, Blaze retires from the Marines and heads to Fallport, VA, to fulfill a promise to his old friend, Brock Mabrey. It will be his last stop before heading west in search of ways to numb the pain while he awaits death.

But fate has other plans for Blaze when he waltzes into Brock’s Old Town Auto Shop and he comes face to face with the one person he thought he’d never see again, reigniting a flame that never truly died.
Pandora Maxwell has spent years building a life of her own as a firefighter in Fallport, after escaping the control of her oppressive parents and the pain of her past. But her hard-won peace is shattered when Sully Miles, a dangerous man she helped put behind bars, is released and hell-bent on revenge.
Running into Blaze, old passions resurface, and long-buried secrets unravel, leaving both breathless and filled with raw emotion. Only, Blaze doesn’t believe he’ll ever be a whole man again. Not after losing his only brother. He vows to stay and protect Pandora until he can help the police nail Sully, and he does exactly that. But will Blaze and Pandora find the courage to fight for the future that was ripped from them twenty years ago? Or will history repeat itself?