Welcome to TuDawgs. Our county fair booth is now serving one very bad girl, sautéed in scandal and peppered with regrets. We grill her with relentless cops and reporters, top her with a choice, all-beef carnival worker, and slather on the heart-stopping hook-ups. Then we add a generous dollop of old flames and make the stakes mile-high. What’s that? You want a cotton-candy ending for your bad girl? That’ll cost her extra. Don’t say I spilled the secret ingredient, but the carnie’s running a rigged game.

Bodie calls his neighbor at the Neon Flamingo Family Campground 'crazy baby' for a reason. She's pure electricity in his arms, but there’s no time for love. He's got one last chance to shake the sand of Myrtle Beach off his cleats and head for the majors. If he ever hits again, that is. Rita can’t get enough of the Carolina country boy living next door, but he’s too late to change her mind. She’s got a date with a handful of pain pills and a rip tide. As soon as she does her last good deed and buries a truckload of flamingoes, she’s making sure no one ever hurts her again. It's good wood and then goodbye, but will one last wave bring the pair together again? (story word count: 134,866)