The Unforgiven by Shauna Allen

As a teenager, I was accused of an unthinkable crime.
My girlfriend vanished without a trace, and because of my less than stellar upbringing, the eyes of suspicion fell on me, making me the prime suspect for a crime nobody could prove happened.
An overnight pariah, I left that town and its nightmares behind the minute I turned eighteen, carrying the unimaginable weight of my own silent guilt.
For more than ten torturous years.
Now, with her disappearance solved, I’ve finally been vindicated, doing nothing to erase a decade’s worth of pain and shame.
When I’m needed back home to take care of family, however, I’ll do what needs to be done—even face down my own demons.
What I’m not ready for is Riley.
Sweet, perfect, and overcoming her own nightmare, she’s resurrecting something in me I’d long since buried . . . my heart.
But I’m convinced some things are better left in the grave.
My name is Hunter Henderson.
I am the Unforgiven.