Work hard. Play hard. Love hard. That’s the Southern way. Revell Marshall has built a life and career working with objects as fragile and damaged as Scarlett while reassembling the delicate stained glass windows that saved the small town of Crossroads, Alabama from ruin. He’s determined to do whatever it takes to lure the one girl he’s always loved back to Alabama, even if he has to rid the town of someone keeping her away. Once Scarlett returns, he’ll do anything to win her heart. Even if he has to help her piece together the facts of her mother’s past and expose old secrets he’d rather leave buried. Stay clear of the past to protect the future. That’s the survivor’s way. Scarlett Marbry a child prodigy, and an acclaimed Sacred Harp singer until the day her mother committed suicide knows she’s never been good enough for Revell. In the aftermath of tragedy, she refused to sing another note, running away from Crossroads and whatever pushed her mother over the edge. Seven years later family obligations and a long lost letter lure her back, but she’ll have to face the one she left behind and a horrible truth she never intended to encounter. What if the love you thought would always be yours turns out to be forbidden? You better hold tight to your heart… Just in case. Alabama Secret Series Each book is a stand alone novel with crossover characters, they are numbered in the order they were written, not in chronological order. Just in Case Book 1 Just Close Enough Book 2

Revenge. Betrayal. Retribution. That’s the Russian way. Seattle businessman Alexander Volkow arrives in Crossroads, Alabama and buys up half of Broad Street. Local residents think he’s there to buy low and sell high, but he’s really after information pointing to a hometown hero who’s MIA. Alex is determined to get his vengeance, leading him to the missing man’s fiancée. Although Polly Anna swears she doesn’t know where Billy is, she might offer Alex the payback he’s looking for with her sweet Southern charm and hot little body. The problem is her sexy snort might lure him back for more. He’ll do anything to get his revenge ... even pretend to fall in love. Polly Anna Coots is searching for a way out. Escaping Crossroads is the only way to survive Billy. Everyone thinks he’s MIA, and no one wishes it’s true more than Polly Anna’s battered body, but someone’s been stalking her. All she needs to make her getaway are the profits from her organic cotton crop, but Alexander Volkow is the only man who’ll buy it and he wants more than a business deal. She’s been with a possessive, domineering man before—there’s no way she’s getting in bed with a secretive Russian playboy ... especially one who’s after something more than another notch in his bed post. In a small Southern town filled with secrets that fuel the smoldering fire burning between them, can either one of them get Just Close Enough? Alabama Secret Series Each book is a stand alone novel with crossover characters, they are numbered in the order they were written, not in chronological order. Just in Case Book 1 Just Close Enough Book 2