The Years Between Us: A Clean Second Chance Small-City Romance (The Ashwell Hearts Series Book 1)
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The Years Between Us
He left without looking back.
Now he’s returned to a life that no longer includes him.
Matt Snyder builds things that last—structures designed to hold people, to create space, to belong.
But Ashwell was never meant to be permanent.
Not for him.
Robyn Cooper didn’t wait for him to come back.
She built her life without him—steady, independent, and rooted in something real.
Something he chose to walk away from.
Now, working in the same city he once left behind, Matt is forced into proximity with the one person who remembers exactly how he disappeared.
And Robyn isn’t interested in reopening the past.
But Ashwell has changed.
And so have they.
As quiet moments turn into something harder to ignore, distance begins to fracture—and the life Matt thought he left behind starts to feel closer than he expected.
Because some choices don’t stay in the past.
And this time… walking away won’t be simple.
Stay guarded in the life she built—
or risk everything on a man who never stayed long enough to prove he would.
✨ Continue your journey in Ashwell — where every story is about what we build… and who we choose to build it with.
Each story in The Ashwell Hearts Series stands on its own—
but together, they create a deeply connected journey.
(Book One in The Ashwell Hearts Series)