Author: harlowjames
LukeThere’s no timeline for grief—at least that’s what the last five years have taught me. After losing my wife unexpectedly three months after our son was born, I threw myself into taking care of him and shutting out the world, including women. But when my mother gets hurt and can no longer care for Grayson while I work my new job, I’m forced to hire a nanny. Little did I know that hiring the … hiring the first woman I found attractive since my late wife would flip over my world and my heart as it learns to beat to…
Cash:I don’t do love. I do sex—because when emotions are involved, love turns into a mess—at least that’s what my parent’s marriage taught me. But then one day, some idiot makes a wrong turn down a one-way street, and suddenly I’m captivated by a woman for the first time in my life. I try to fight it, this pull I feel towards her, but seeing her in other instances just proves that she is … something different. So I surrender, pursue a woman relentlessly and find myself falling until I realize she’s not who she says she is. She has…
Cooper: One night. One bullet. One instance where I saw Clara Anderson at her worst and something in me shifted. The woman was no longer just one of my older sister’s best friends—she was a more beautiful version of the girl I harbored a crush on as a teenager—and I saved her life when she needed me. The desire to protect her blossomed and grew in the months following her attack, along with my … with my feelings. I know my sister warned me away, knowing that Clara was the anti-relationship type, but the string tying us together kept pulling…
Kane:One night, that’s all it was supposed to be. Tony—my confidant and the bartender I made friends with when I moved to Emerson Falls, Oregon—pushed me to have some fun, a word I’ve forgotten the meaning of since I was betrayed three years ago. But that deep red hair and those curves on that woman drew me in.After life-altering sex, I resigned myself to the fact I’d never see her again. But it … her again. But it seems the universe had other plans. Now we work together and I’m feeling things I never thought I could feel again. Before…
Can one look change your life?Jake: More like one almost-taking-a-baseball-to-the-face can change your life. My first game in the MLB and I make a fool out of myself by looking in the stands when I know better. But those deep brown eyes on that woman penetrated my mind, made me lose focus, and left me more curious about her than I’d ever felt about another person. Fate intervened, and before I … before I knew it, I was willing to risk everything to make this woman mine. They say everything happens for a reason though…which means when her world falls…