The Pelican Bay Collection: Vol. #1 by Sloane Kennedy

This box set features the first 3 books from the Pelican Bay Series:
Locked in Silence
Sanctuary Found
The Truth Within

Locked in Silence
I’ve spent years hoping someone would finally hear me. It’s easier not to try anymore…
At twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country but when circumstances beyond his control force him return to the small Minnesota town he never expected to see again, the last thing the young man expects is to literally come face to face with his past.
Even if I could speak, there wouldn’t be anyone there to listen…
Pelican Bay’s golden boy, Dallas Kent, had the quintessential perfect life. Smart, gorgeous, and popular, the baseball phenom was well on his way to a life filled with fame and fortune. But a stormy night, sharp highway curve and one bad decision stole everything including Dallas’s voice and the once “could-do-no-wrong” teenager is now a bitter, reclusive man who has retreated to a secluded stretch of land where he’s found refuge in a menagerie of unwanted animals that don’t care that he once had the world at his feet or that he’ll never speak again.
But when the quiet, bookish boy he wasn’t allowed to notice in school suddenly reappears ten years later at Dallas’s wildlife rehab center in desperate need of a job, Dallas is thrust back into a world he’s worked hard to escape.
Dallas’s silence was supposed to send Nolan scurrying, but what if Nolan ends up being the one person who finally hears him?

Sanctuary Found
Coming home should be the easiest thing in the world, but I’ve never felt more lost…
When his stellar military career comes to an abrupt and terrible end, thirty-two-year-old Maddox Kent returns to the town he never planned to step foot into again, hoping to mend the rift he himself caused with the brother he left behind. While forgiveness is the very last thing he’s expecting, so is his sudden interest in the mysterious young man who claims to be just passing through but is clearly on the run.
As long as we keep moving, everything will be okay. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway…
For twenty-one-year-old Isaac, Pelican Bay is only supposed to be a stopping point on the trek from San Francisco to New York. With his little brother, Newt, in tow, things get complicated fast and much of it has to do with a certain gorgeous ex-shoulder who pushes all of Isaac’s buttons. Aside from their explosive chemistry, nothing about the straitlaced soldier and the secretive misfit works.
But maybe that’s exactly why it does…

The Truth Within
I’m not a fighter. I never was. So how do I make the one man who might just be worth fighting for see that?
At twenty-five years old, Ford Cornell should have his whole life ahead of him but instead, the would-be artist is drowning in denial and just trying to get through each day. And the boy who once believed life was about following impossible dreams has finally come to accept that it’s really only about surviving a living nightmare… one of his own making.
But the bruises are becoming harder to hide. So is the truth…
I refuse to fall for a guy who won’t accept the truth about who he is or what he wants. Not again…
After an ugly lie destroys his career and the man he’d planned to spend the rest of his life with cuts him to the core with the ultimate betrayal, forty-year-old Cam is counting on his new job as sheriff of the quiet town of Pelican Bay to be the fresh start he needs. What he isn’t counting on is meeting a young man who makes him want to break all his own rules.
So which man will bend and which will break? And what will the truth ultimately reveal?