Life in a small town has many advantages, such as friendly neighbours and quiet streets. However, there are downsides. In Hinton Grove, everyone knows everything about you, including all the dirty details of the break-up that destroyed you.
Holly co-owns the town’s only bakery, and was content to live out her life with her childhood sweetheart. That was, until he left her behind for bigger and better things.
Learning to piece herself back together again, she struggles through, writing off men for good. Her resolve is almost immediately tested when three handsome city folk move into the shop beside hers.
What starts as rivalry between businesses soon becomes something different, something more, and not just with Bear, the new owner, but all three of the men who have come barrelling into her life.
Can Holly allow her heart to heal? Will she turn away the advances of the newcomers, or will she truly be whisked off her feet?
Ever since my most recent breakup with my long-time on and off girlfriend, Iโve been surly and grumpy. Even the prospect of opening up a tattoo parlor and getting to lay ink again doesnโt hold the allure it once did, although the three little girls who are now club princesses do have me smiling a bit more. Still, my heart is encased in ice now after Rosa, and I wonder if Iโll ever have what my brothers have started to findโa woman who loves all of them, not just certain aspects.
When Phoebe walks in and drops the bombshell of a lifetime in my lap, I realize that my life has irrevocably changed for the better and I vow to be the best father possible to my daughter. The biggest question I have, however, is will Phoebe join me for the ride of our lives?
Phoebe
As a nurse, Iโve dealt with life and death situations on a pretty consistent basis, but Iโve never had to perform CPR on a family member while her infant daughter was nearby. Quite honestly, I never want to do it again, so thereโs that to consider. Even knowing what the outcome was going to be, Iโm still sad that a little girl will grow up without her mother. But now, her father can meet the daughter he never knew he had, and all I can do is hope heโll still let me see her from time to time.
Walking into the Steel Raiders MC clubhouse was harder than I anticipated. I know Iโm doing the right thing by informing Camiโs father of her existence, but Iโve helped raise her and Iโm going to miss her terribly. So, instead of waiting around, I basically drop her off and run, only I donโt get very far as my emotions take over once Iโm through the clubhouse gates.
Two souls looking for loveโwill they find it with each other and raise the little girl they both love to pieces?
I rebuilt my life in Laurel Springs after my divorce. Teaching high school, playing it safe, staying away from dangerous men like the one I married the first time. Then Dime walked into my world. He was everything I shouldn’t want. With leather, muscle, and all kinds of secrets wrapped in a Saint’s Outlaws MC cut. It’s everything I can’t seem to resist.
When my best friend tells me the truth about who Dime really is, I should walk away. But some danger is worth the risk. Or so I think, until one of my students decides that if he can’t have me, no one can.
Logan Matthews has apparently been stalking me for months. He knows where I live. He knows about Dime. And now he’s in my classroom convinced he can make me choose him. As sirens wail and his finger tightens on the trigger, my life flashes before my eyes.
Over the next few months, I realize this isn’t just an obsession. It’s connected to the marijuana operation killing kids in our town. The same operation Dime has been investigating.
In the aftermath, I make a choice. There are no more secrets. If we’re going to survive this, I need to know who Dime really is. Even if the truth might destroy us.
DIME
Three years undercover, living as an outlaw, investigating what we think is the criminal empire infiltrating the town. I’ve kept my distance from anything that could blow my cover. Then Allison looked at me, and my carefully constructed life started crumbling.
When that kid pointed a gun at her, every instinct screamed to blow my cover and save her. Now Logan’s been bailed out by the very family that’s blowing up on our radar, and Allison wants the truth. All of it.
She deserves to know I’m a cop. That the brotherhood I’ve built with the Saint’s Outlaws is real, even if my identity isn’t. That I’ll choose her over my badge, my mission, everything single thing, if it means keeping her alive.
Because in Laurel Springs, secrets surface. And some truths are worth killing for.
TROPES: Small Town Romance โข Motorcycle Club Romance โข Second Chance at Love โข Undercover Cop โข He Has Dangerous Secrets โข Protective Alpha Hero โข Stalker Suspense โข Forced Proximity
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She is Valentine. He is Moretti. Can their love break the Valentine Vendetta?
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The Valentine Vendetta is her familyโs blood oath to erase the Morettis, older than the truce itself.
Luigi Moretti
Leaving her is the hardest part. No names. All heat. Then the call comes. The truce needs the Moretti heir. An annual Valentineโs Week ceasefire under the Commission so money moves while Valentines and Morettis redraw lines. The Vendetta keeps a target on my back; this is usually the one week I breathe. Not this year. My order is simple. End the ceasefire by ending the Valentine heir.
I walk in and see her. The stranger from my bed wearing the crown. Isabella Valentine. My enemy. When I learn her fiancรฉ paid for the shot, I set my sights on him instead. My family wants her gone, he wants her buried, and I want her breathing and saying my name.
Isabella Valentine
One reckless night was not a mistake. He lit a fire under my skin and it stayed. At the truce I recognize the eyes I dreamed about on the enemy heir. Luigi Moretti. The table smiles for peace while my fiancรฉ signs my death. The Valentine Vendetta is the law of my house, Moretti blood for Valentine blood. Tonight the crossfire makes every promise a lie. Luigi pulls me through smoke and into shadows where touch feels like treason. We are enemies by blood, temptation by choice, and I want his hands on my skin more than I want to rule a house of lies.
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Taj Blackman knows a thing or two about responsibility. As the new CEO of Blackman Boards, he intends to carry on the legacy his father built with dignity.
Itโs that mindset that leaves him unable to neglect the duty he feels in other aspects of his life. Like with a specific someone.
Olivia Thomas.
Taj never expected to see the supermodel in his small hometown, especially not in her wedding gown.
But when Olivia appears, desperate for his help, Taj canโt turn her away.
Using everything heโs learned from the man who entrusted a multi-million-dollar company to him, Taj is honored to take on a new responsibility thatโs worth far more than money could ever buy.
A.K. Evans is a contemporary romance author of over seventy published novels. While she enjoys writing a good romantic suspense novel, Andreaโs favorite books to write have been her extreme sports romances. That might have something to do with the fact that she, along with her husband and two sons, canโt get enough of extreme sports.
Before becoming a writer, Andrea did a brief stint in the insurance and financial services industry and managed her husbandโs performance automotive business. That love of extreme sports? She used to drive race cars!
When Andrea isnโt writing, she can be found homeschooling her two sons, doing yoga, snowboarding, reading, or traveling with her family. She and her husband are currently taking road trips throughout the country to visit all 50 states with their boys.
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