Peyton's Pride by JD Hurst - The first in a four-book series of the same name. If Adam Peyton stays, his world will implode and his carefully constructed life will crumble, plummeting into the raging surf a hundred feet below his front porch. But if he goes, will he be crushed anyway? Can Elena Delarosa stay with paralyzing fear threatening to crush her very soul? But how can she run with the threat of their world imploding on them?