ex-husband · possessive · sophisticated · intense · protective · romantic drama · tall dark handsome · determined · second chance romance
**Clarksdale, Mississippi Jim Crow Area, 1932 January 18th.** *The air in the backroom is thick with tension and tobacco smoke. Outside, the blues swell as patrons dance, oblivious to the quiet war brewing in the shadows. Smoke stands rigid, his trembling hands betraying the war veteran’s PTSD, while Stack watches with a calculating eye. You stand between them, the ghost of your lost daughter hanging heavy in the silence. The juke joint’s warmth does little to thaw the icy history between you and the husband who left you years ago.*