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Carter's Bar
Series · 5 books · 2018-2021

Books in series

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#1

Jack And Crush

2018

He's never done anything like this before. Arriving home fresh from the hell of Kandahar, Fletcher Bennett ends up at a bar. The straitlaced military man finds himself looking for a distraction. He’s mortified when he wakes up and discovers he’d found it in a strange woman’s bed. There’s something different about this one night stand. Outgoing. Outrageous. Outspoken. These are all words Lillie King has had used to describe her. Not one to chase after any man, she’s not unhappy when circumstances keep bringing the sexy soldier her way. But when they lose contact after Fletcher is called back for yet another dangerous mission, she fears the worst. Is this the end?
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#2

Johnnie And June

2019

From gang member to bar manager, Milo knows he’s been lucky. When Lillian Bennett entrusted him to run her bar while she started a family, Milo took it seriously. He’s focused on making it the best place it can be, even starting a bartending school to bring in more revenue. When a gorgeous brunette walks into his bar, he feels a pull he can’t deny, even when she insists on using pseudonyms. Shea is running from a dangerous past, but she sees something special in Milo. She can’t allow herself to get close to him, but she wants him in a way she hasn’t wanted a man in a long time. Confused over her feelings and scared of her own shadow, she can’t move on with her past haunting her. When becoming stronger is her only goal, is there room for Milo in her life? \Come for the first steamy night, stay for the HEA!\ This can’t-miss series is full of strong women, swoon-worthy men, and a small town that feels like home. Each book delivers on the romance factor, where the men are bestowed nicknames based on their favorite liquor and the women use pseudonyms until they’re ready to admit they’re in love. Welcome to Carter’s Bar, where you’ll instantly fall in love, just like the couples.
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#3

Jose And Honey

2020

After suffering from bullying her entire life, Nora Watts packs her bags and sets off to find a new life. When she finds Carter’s Bar, she decides to try her hand at bartending. Despite her clumsiness, Nora works hard and makes friends. Considering her coworkers her new family, she thinks she’s finally made a good life for herself. Ethan Baines didn't expect to walk into Carter’s Bar and find the most beautiful woman in the world behind the bar. He also didn’t expect her to resist his flirting and refuse to give him her name. Content to call her honey, he orders Jose Cuervo Especial, unaware of the tradition at Carter’s to call strangers by their drink choice. Nora was burned a few too many times by guys just looking for one thing, and she’s not about to fall for Ethan’s charming hotness. But, when he keeps coming back, she has to admit there’s something special about him. Will she keep him at arm’s length, or realize he’s a good man who means what he says? \Come for the first steamy night, stay for the HEA!\ This can’t-miss series is full of strong women, swoon-worthy men, and a small town that feels like home. Each book delivers on the romance factor, where the men are bestowed nicknames based on their favorite liquor and the women use pseudonyms until they’re ready to admit they’re in love. Welcome to Carter’s Bar, where you’ll instantly fall in love, just like the couples.
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#4

Jim And Peaches

2021

Cooper Kennedy is a self-proclaimed ladies man, known for his hit-it-and-quit-it attitude. Everything changes when the hottest woman he’s ever seen walks into his bar one night. She’s not looking for more than a one night stand, which used to be enough to satisfy Cooper. What he doesn’t expect is the realization that she completely contradicts all preconceived notions of love and romance. Emeline Vaughn is a driven career woman who’s not looking for prince charming and a white picket fence, nor does she want to follow in the disastrous footsteps of her mother’s less than respectable love life. Both Emeline and Cooper are looking to scratch an itch, but what happens when one scratch isn’t enough? Have their perceptions changed, or will they go back to the same old love them and leave them routines? \Come for the first steamy night, stay for the HEA!\ This can’t-miss series is full of strong women, swoon-worthy men, and a small town that feels like home. Each book delivers on the romance factor, where the men are bestowed nicknames based on their favorite liquor and the women use pseudonyms until they’re ready to admit they’re in love. Welcome to Carter’s Bar, where you’ll instantly fall in love, just like the couples.
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#5

Jameson And Shorty

2021

Ryder Mitchell is the only single man working at Carter’s Bar, and he wants to keep it that way. Orphaned as a teen, Ryder created a plan for the way his life would play out. He would get a good job, maybe two, and save enough money to buy a house he could renovate himself. Then, and only then, would he look for someone special to share his life with. When he meets someone new while working at the bar, he’s immediately repelled by her overly flirtatious attitude and odd behavior. Morgan Henry is in town to escape the abusive relationships of her past. Only her cousin, Hannah, knows the truth about what happened to her. Morgan copes with her anxiety and fears with booze, men, and tattoos; only she’s not truly coping at all. Ryder sends her desires into overdrive, but he’s resistant to her usual tricks. By the time she realizes he’s the nicest, most respectful man she’s ever encountered, she’s afraid she’s ruined her chances due to her previous liaisons. Will they come together at the right time, or have they missed what could have been the best thing to happen to either of them? \Come for the first steamy night, stay for the HEA!\ This can’t-miss series is full of strong women, swoon-worthy men, and a small town that feels like home. Each book delivers on the romance factor, where the men are bestowed nicknames based on their favorite liquor and the women use pseudonyms until they’re ready to admit they’re in love. Welcome to Carter’s Bar, where you’ll instantly fall in love, just like the couples.

Author

Lara Norman
Lara Norman
Author · 9 books

Lara used to scribble her fictional characters down on legal pads in high school, and then not show them to anyone. In recent years, she started posting her work in public forums for feedback, which gave her the courage to publish professionally. She needs copious amounts of coffee and chocolate to survive. You’ll find F.R.I.E.N.D.S. references sprinkled throughout her books because it’s her favorite show. She enjoys eavesdropping on the character conversations in her head, which she has been assured doesn’t make her crazy. Unfortunately, she always gets the best ideas while in the shower, driving, or about to fall asleep. Though she’s a Florida girl at heart, Lara currently resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband of twenty-plus years and their three children, where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age fifteen.

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