This book was re-published in 2022 as Dark Eyed Devil Hayden Cole was good times dressed like bad news. Dark hair falling over eyes that had seen too much. Full lips curving into a smile that set my body on fire. The way he disliked everything about my sheltered world, except me. I spent years in love with the groundkeeper’s nephew. In the darkness, in the silence, our hearts spoke the same language. Until he left without a word and tore mine right out of my chest. Ten years later he’s back from the Navy. He’s every inch the rogue I remember—broken smiles and amber eyes. And he’s determined to fix the wounds of the past Lily Marchand was everything I knew I could never have. The golden child of my uncle’s rich employer. She has always been so painfully out of my reach. I’d known it, and I reached for her anyway, and it led to disaster. Ten years might have passed, but she can still bring me to my knees with shame. As if I didn’t break my own goddamn heart by leaving her back then. But a decade can change a lot of things. This time I’m not giving up without a fight—not when I know she feels the same. Her parents might still hate me and her brothers might want to kill me. But there is no way I’m letting them run me out of town again. Some love stories are simple. But ours never was. ✔️ Forbidden love ✔️ Second-chance romance ✔️ Broody, tortured hero ✔️ Feisty, genuine heroine ✔️ Standalone

He’s ruthless. He’s my new boss. And he’s used to getting what he wants. I’m drunk when I send my job application to Henry Marchand. “It’s not like you’re going to consider hiring me anyway, you elitist.” Yep—that’s actually what I write. Excuse me while I start tunneling to China. When he summons me for an interview, I’m floored. But I’m also unemployed, so I say yes. Yes, absolutely, yes. He offers me the position of his personal assistant. Is it the job I want? No. But his firm is brilliant, and I’m determined to work my way to the top. Nothing will stand in my way, not even an inconvenient attraction to my new boss. He’s competitive, ambitious, harshly good-looking. His new favorite sport is challenging me—my limits, my wits. The chemistry between us soon sizzles and burns. Lines get blurred. Boundaries are crossed. He’s not as cold as he seems. And he wants me.

There's nothing worse than working with an arrogant blue blood who despises everything about me. Except getting stuck with him in the middle of nowhere. "They’re just models. Air-headed and vain." That’s what Rhys Marchand says the first time we meet, knowing I can overhear him. He’s the last person I want to be paired with for this travel campaign, but unlike him, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon. I don’t have a choice. So it doesn’t matter how much we despise each other, because I’d be crazy to turn down an around-the-world job to shoot in exotic locations. Not even Rhys’s brooding will stop me. But somewhere between the turquoise-blue waters of the Caribbean and the cobblestone streets of Paris, I begin to see the real him. The man who’s complicated and strong-willed, intelligent and secretive. The man who holds me tight in the back of a Jeep on a desert night. Rhys soon learns that I’m more than I seem. The only problem is that so is he.

My new boss is my best friend’s older brother and the golden boy of Paradise Shores. Me? I'm the misfit single mom who never wanted to fit in... Being forced to move back to my hometown after a decade away is embarrassing, but I’ll do anything to protect my little girl. I’ll even wait tables at the elite Yacht Club… now owned by the boy I once had a huge crush on. He’s grown up and claimed his rightful place as King of Paradise Shores. Parker Marchand was a star athlete and professional sailor who never looked at me twice. He’s strong and steady, everything my abusive ex wasn't, but I'm a struggling single mom and professional screw-up. What could we possibly have in common? But Parker doesn't believe in no win situations. He wants to be my knight in shining armor. His plan: Charm my daughter. Take me sailing. Out to dinner...and into his bed. Make me forget everyone but him. The man I’ve always wanted is within reach, but I've been burned too many times to trust again. Parker has a brilliant future and I’m running from my past. Everyone knows knights in shining armor aren't real, and I’m too old to believe in fairy tales. Even if Parker is making it hard not to...