The Natural Card: a Lightning Cove Novel

Clara Ramirez-Roberts excels in everything she does—baking, academics, and being a comforting friend—except for keeping her life tidy. A masterful liar, Clara has been navigating life alone since her father’s tragic death. Finding solace in ballet, a passion she’s kept hidden for a decade, forced Clara into a double life her med-school plans never accounted for. Ten years later her secrets are multiplying, and her life is spiraling into chaos. Now is the worst time for her become infatuated with a man nearly twice her age. If only his dogs weren’t so freaking sweet…Rowan De La Torre, scarred by a life fighting through hardship and loss, finds himself inexplicably drawn to Clara, this girl whose presence makes him feel like a better man with nothing but a smile. He’s always been a breath away from a bullet, a hair’s width away from losing it all, a single nights sleep away from memories that will haunt him until his dying days. Life has never been easy for Rowan, it almost feels like the hardship of existing day after day is the entire point. Then why does being with her make it seem like it could be? Why does being with her feel like the most natural thing in the entire world?Can the ghosts of Rowan’s past let him accept the love he’s found in the present?Or will the lies of Clara’s present make their future an impossibility?