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Troubled Water
An Age Gap, Workplace, Protector Redemption: Alternate Cover
2025
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4.20
Average Rating
172
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Parker “Thorn” Thornton can never discuss exactly how he spends his days. That’s been the story of his life for as long as he can remember. That is until yesterday when crap hit the fan, and his personal and professional lives clashed in a way he never anticipated. Now, the self-righteous, arrogant, sexy former SEAL has no choice but to spill his guts to a roomful of strangers. To provoke his peace of mind, the people demanding answers seem to want to focus their questions on the one subject guaranteed to send his blood boiling—the woman he loves, Bethany McCallister. As day turns to night and the grilling continues, the intrusiveness of the questions asked knows no bounds. No topic is left off the table, forcing Thorn to concede his relationship with Bethany has hit its fair share of troubled water. Even though Thorn’s determined to protect Bethany, will he be caught between shielding Bethany and admitting the truth? That he’d kill to protect her. Again.

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Tracey Jerald
Tracey Jerald
Author · 33 books

Want to keep up with Tracey? www.traceyjerald.com For more outstanding romance reads, follow Foreword PR Please direct all inquiries to my personal email - authortraceyjerald@gmail.com for a faster response To sign up for her newsletter, go to: smarturl.it/TraceyJerald_News Tracey Jerald knew she was meant to be a writer when she would re-write the ending of books in her head on her bike when she was a young girl growing up in southern Connecticut. It wasn’t long before she was typing alternate endings and extended epilogues “just for fun.” 
After college in Florida, where she obtained a degree in Criminal Justice swearing she saw things she’ll never quite believe and never entirely forget, Tracey traded the world of law and order for IT. Her work for a global internet startup transferred her to Northern Virginia where she met her husband in what many call their own happily ever after. They have one son. 
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