At an age of twenty-five, I was finally ready to explore the world. I was free. Out of my mother’s grip. Out of Cherrywood. I never expected my new world would revolve around a grumpy forty-year old single-dad. I was supposed to be a short term tenant in Keith’s loft. I wasn’t supposed to roam in his house, asking him to make me cinnamon latte, and become friends with his daughter. And most of all, I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with Keith Adams. But if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s break the rules. Keith wants nothing to do with me. He’s still mourning the wife he lost years ago, and the ice around his heart is thick. He claims he doesn’t want love, and definitely not from a girl fifteen years younger than him. He says I need to figure out my life on my own. But I’m gonna show him I can be what he needs. Even if he doesn’t know yet. I can be his second true love.

Getting stuck sharing a honeymoon suite with a hot, ex-NAVY Seal sounds like it should be a good time. Except Lukas is my husband and we haven't spoken in years. Until today, we were living separate lives, waiting to get out of this arranged marriage. But my family's meddling has pushed us together. And now he's here filling out his t-shirt just a little too well and staring at me just a little too intensely. Don't even get me started on the cleft on his chin that pops up every time he smiles. The man has temptation written all over him. We manage to stay out of each other's way–mostly. Until the tension boils over one night in a car. I straddle his lap. I press my lips to his. I feel his body against mine. And that one hot moment has me offering something I never thought I would. What happens in the honeymoon suite, stays in the honeymoon suite. But what Lukas and I share in that room is so much more than just physical. With every kiss, every caress, every touch, I start forgetting our reality, and wonder if we've got it all wrong. We planned our divorce four years ago. But what if our plans have changed?

Stranded in the most beautiful cabin in the middle of nowhere with my bodyguard shouldn’t be so hard. Except Gavin King is no longer looking at me like a client and his touches are far from professional. Gavin is not a typical bodyguard. The owner of Kings Security is the complete opposite of me. While, I’m the country's most renowned angsty voice, who hides behind a stage name, he has a presence which can’t be confined. His broad shoulders, curly tresses reaching his shoulders, and colorful tattoos, send my hormones into overdrive. His plan against my stalker is simple. Fake dating. Those words are far more complicated in reality. In between the kisses and touches, staged for the camera, there are moments just for us. I sing for him at night, as my voice turns out to be the only cure for his insomnia. He takes me on bike rides, because I’m scared of cars. But, with each intimate moment, the line between pretense and truth becomes increasingly blurred. I see a side of my bodyguard which he hides behind thick walls. Although his assignment with me is meant to be temporary, my heart can’t stop wanting it to be forever.

Carter King– first and only love of my life – a man who became my happy place after my mom’s death. It didn’t matter that he was eleven years older than me or that he was groomed to be my dad’s boss, I loved him with every bit of my teenage heart. But mine was an unrequited love, at least until now. I’m returning home after four years of college, hoping I’ve finally purged Carter out of my system. But he’s no longer the carefree man I remember. Instead, he's a brooding CEO, wrapped in Tom ford sophistication and a touch of vulnerability. Did I say, I wasn't ready for this changed version of him? All my attempts to stay away fall apart and it takes no time for the old friendship to rekindle, evolving into every bit of my teenage fantasies. Carter kisses me in front of hundreds of his business associates, and promises me the all consuming love, I’d dreamed of since I was a little girl. But despite the familiar, there’s so much unspoken between us. He needs to know what made me flee four years ago. Will my dreams shatter once more in the face of truth? A Forever Love is a hear-felt, swoon-filled, friends to lovers, billionaire romance set in a small town.