Part of Series
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.
Author
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.
