Because I Liked A Boy Trilogy (Book 2) - comes signed and with a bookmark.

Print Length: 380 pages

Release: 12/02/2026

One city. One reunion. One love that never stayed buried.

Isabella Ashbourne didn’t leave to forget.

She left to survive.

After walking away from Maplewood and the boy who knew her too well, Isabella builds a life on control and distance. She learns how to keep her heart guarded and her past buried, because loving once nearly destroyed her.

Hunter Hayes was never supposed to follow her. He was the boy who saw her when she was still soft, still hopeful, and still capable of love. The boy she walked away from to protect them both. And the one person capable of breaking through the walls she’s spent years building.

When their paths collide again, everything Isabella worked to contain begins to unravel. Old wounds resurface. Feelings she never faced demand answers. And the truth she’s been running from presses closer with every heartbeat.

Because some love stories don’t end when you walk away.They wait. They ache. And when they return, they ask for everything.

A raw, emotionally charged continuation of Because I Liked a Boy, Why You Gotta Be So Vicious is a story of second chances, found family, and the kind of love that refuses to stay buried.