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Hometown Heartstrings Series
Hearts at War
Book One
Heather
The last thing I want to do is return to Burton. The small-town life was never kind to me, but there's no way I can stay in the city. I can't stomach another day near him.
Coming back to the hometown I wasn't welcome in takes guts, but it's not only courage I need as I rent a dump of a cabin and start a job that isn't my dream.
I need to stick to my new motto.
No men. No trusting anyone, ever again.
All I want to do is keep to myself and figure out a retake on life.
Too bad my neighbor has other plans.
Roarke
It doesn't matter that they tease me about sleeping my way through town. Rumors won't bother me. In fact, nothing in this peaceful, quaint town can get on my nerves.
I've finally got some privacy.
I'm far from my ex-wife.
And so long as I remember that my life is really better off if I steer clear of drama, of women, nothing will stop me from working hard and kicking back.
Those best-laid plans don't last long, though. Not when my troublemaker of a niece shows up, and certainly not when a gorgeous woman with secrets pushes me away at every turn.
Passion In Bloom
Book Two
Heather
The longer I stay, the more life seems to settle. After all the hardships and headaches this small town gave me, I want to linger past the end of the year.
New friendships at work help. Having my privacy and solitude heals me.
When my ex shows up, proving that I can run but not hide, all the careful peace I'm letting into my life is shattered.
I won't be able to move on with him watching me.
I can't even breathe with him near.
If my landlord didn't stand up for me, I would be halfway back to the city, dragged back to that horrible man by now.
I'm grateful Roarke intervened, but asking him to butt out of my life doesn't seem to stick.
Because it's becoming a lie.
I want him right here, with me.
If only I could convince myself that it will last.
Roarke
I know when to back down. I'm not aggressive by nature.
Yet, the second I see her scared and locked in panic, nothing will stop me from defending her. No one will talk me out of facing the arrogant stranger who insists that she is his.
I want Heather to be mine. To fit with me.
I thought I was done with women, with their drama, but it's not so easy walking away from this sexy, troubled woman with too many secrets.
I won't push. I'll be patient and approach at her pace.
It's bliss when we cave. Our surrender is too raw and real to consider that we couldn't belong together.
But her past isn't staying behind her. When something new, something different threatens her, I'm at a loss for what to believe.
How can she seem so right for me when fate is determined to yank us apart?
Love at Peace
Book Three
Heather
I'm stupid to stay. With my ex hanging around, getting too close for comfort, the only thing that makes sense is to go. To run.
Fighting back seems impossible. Putting roots down and really letting love in feels too risky.
A job is waiting for me somewhere far away, somewhere safe. I could take off and have a redo. Maybe this time, I might get over the trauma of my past.
But running from this small town—again—would mean giving up on the one man who seems prepared to fight for me.
He'll fight with me, too, but how can I truly know if I'm strong enough to lean on love and survive this threat from my past?
Roarke
I jinxed myself when I said I didn't want drama. Between my ex-wife and my troublemaker of a niece, I'm loaded with women causing hell in my life.
When it comes to the gorgeous woman in the cabin next to mine, though, I try not to give up on her pushing me away.
No one will tell what's going on. She won't open up and explain herself.
It takes someone getting hurt to prompt her to sharing about what she wants to escape.
But now, her threat is endangering someone in my life, someone I can't abandon.
I never thought I would have to have my heart torn into two.
As much as I want to fight for a future with the woman I want to make my forever, I must decide if I can choose love over the duty to family.
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