The storm is raging... Torin I lost my heart five years ago and the space where it once was is now covered in ice. It was better that way. Their deaths were my fault, and this isolation is my penance. So I spend my days on the water, tempting the storms that roughen the seas to take me too. Until she arrived. Maya and all her secrets tempted me in a way I didn't think was possible. Not after everything that happened. But she had the presence of a tempest. Hard to ignore, and I find myself more than willing to stand in the eye of her storm. Maya I came here to escape. To run away. And Ravenpeak Bay was the perfect sleepy little town to hide away in. I expected quiet days to forget it all, but I should have known it wouldn't be that easy. Torin Avery has been a storm in my path ever since I met him, and he's a man you can't look away from. My past doesn't allow me to trust or love easily, and I know a man like him will shatter what little of me I have left. Yet Torin was just as broken as I was, and though I tried to look away from whatever was brewing between us, I was finding instead, that his broken pieces fit perfectly with mine. But no amount of running will stop the past from catching up, and our secrets leave us drowning in these rough waters. These Rough Waters, Ravenpeak Bay \#1 is a small town dark romance. It is book 1 in a series of interconnected standalones. It is a dark romance, a list of TWs and CWs can be found at the start of the book.

Everett I'm the charming brother. The playful one. Damn good at my job, but I never take it too seriously. Life and death were just like playing cards dealt around a poker table. And the new job I accepted was just like any other. Until it wasn't. My course changed the moment I met Arryn Lauder, an absolute hurricane of a woman, and my client's daughter. But when the job goes wrong, and she becomes the new target on the underworld's hitlist, I do the one thing that could end us both. I take her. She was determined to hate me, but she was always meant to be mine. Arryn Model. Heiress. Ice queen. I was used to being disliked. I expected it even. So when Everett Avery shows up, with his charm and ridiculous good looks, I know to expect disappointment. But then everything changes in one evening, as the only witness to my father's murder, my life becomes forfeited by the very same organization Everett works for. Except he doesn't want to cash in on the job, he wants to save me from it, even if that means taking me against my will. I try to keep my distance, I know how these stories end, but the more time we spend together, the harder it is to deny. Everett wanted me to be his. But fear keeps my heart locked in a cage. This book is a dark small town romance and contains content some may find uncomfortable. A list of TWs are provided at the start of the book and also available on the authors website. It is intended for mature readers, 18\+

Vanessa I was never supposed to fall in love with him. We were only supposed to be a quick Spring fling, he was leaving and I was going to college. It was for the best, with his secrets and his darkness, the two of us were never meant to last. A year later, a chance encounter brought us back together. It was one night, one night to say goodbye. The following day he left and he took everything with him, including my heart. What I hadn’t realized at the time was that he left a little piece of him behind with me. Now three years later I have a beautiful son. I never expected to see him again. Until he shows up with his brothers, and the secret I’ve been keeping is finally revealed. I thought I had moved on, fixed my broken heart and was ready to continue with my life. But the moment I lay eyes on Kolten, I realize I never did get my heart back, and despite the history between us and all the broken pieces at our feet, I was willing to try again. Even if another heart break at the hand of this man would likely be my ruin. Kolten She thinks it was easy for me. To leave her behind and not come back for her. But I did it for a reason, I was darkness, she was light, and I couldn’t drag her down with me. It was beneath these dark skies five years ago when I fell in love for the first and last time, and Vanessa Hale still owns my heart, even after all these years apart. But now I’m back, and the woman I love is now the mother to a child I did not know I had. I was finally free from my past, and this was my end game. But the tricky thing about history is that it has a tendency to repeat itself.