Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score (Paperback)

Knox Morgan likes his life quiet. His barber shop runs on his rules, his evenings are his own, and his only steady companion is his basset hound, Waylon. He avoids drama, attachment and anything that might disrupt the calm he’s built in Knockemout, Virginia. Then Naomi Witt arrives.

Naomi turns up in town wearing a wedding dress and carrying hope she probably shouldn’t have trusted. She came to help her estranged twin, only to be betrayed once again. Her sister disappears with Naomi’s car and savings, leaving her stranded, broke and suddenly responsible for an eleven-year-old niece she never knew existed. With nowhere to go and no clear way out, Naomi’s fresh start collapses before it even begins.

Knox wants no part of it. Naomi is chaos wrapped in optimism, the exact opposite of everything he tolerates. Still, Knockemout has its own rules, and leaving someone in trouble does not sit right with him. One favour turns into another. Proximity breeds tension. Protection turns personal.

As Naomi fights to build stability for herself and the child now depending on her, Knox finds his carefully controlled life cracking open. Threats from her past creep closer, and the danger becomes real. Knox must decide whether staying detached is worth losing the one person who has challenged his solitude. For Naomi, trust feels risky. For Knox, caring feels even worse. Neither expects love. Both may need it to survive.