Judson

It's been six years since I ran away from Boulder. Six years since my best friend and I escaped a kidnapper who'd held us captive for two weeks. Six years since I left him to deal with the aftermath on his own. I've only come back now because is having her first baby, and I'll be damned if I'm not there when my nephew is born. But my plans to avoid my estranged best friend go out the window when I meet him working as a nurse as the local hospital. Instantly, all those memories I've held back rush in, and all I want is to be near him again.

River

When I come face to face with Judson Clark for the first time since we were seventeen, I almost punch him. And then I almost kiss him. He used to be my everything. He was there for me when my mom died; he refused to leave Ian's house of horror without me. But once we escaped, he vanished. Now here he is in front of me again, and despite everything that happened, I still want him just as badly as I did back then . . .

Welcome to the We Found Love series, where every book is about scarred heroes who come back to face their pasts, and the men who fall in love with them. Each book is a standalone and can be read in any order.

TW: While Bruise Me Tenderly is a romance with an HEA, it also contains discussions and flashbacks to sexual assault Judson and River experience as teenagers.