That Boy: a Twisted Christmas Romance of Secret Identity and Dark Suspense Cheshire Set Book

A new chapter in the IPPY Award-Winning Romance Series…“I’ll burn the whole world for you, Sofia. But only if you’ll dance with me in the flames. Only if you want it.”Building an impossible tea farm in the Cheshire countryside was Sofia’s second chance. A way to prove herself. A fresh start. She knew it would be graft. She anticipated a degree of isolation. But with Christmas imminent and the farm faltering, her thoughts have grown darker. She’s searching for something, an ineffable force to make this year the magical wonderland she always craves and never finds.With so much riding on the tea farm’s success, there’s no time to fix her ailing social life. Sofia resigns herself to another lonely holiday.Enter Matt.Delaware Grange’s twenty-one-year-old assistant gamekeeper. Nice enough, a bit dopey.As she hunkers down for winter, Sofia thinks she’s prepared for everything. Nothing could prepare her for Matt. For the abrupt awareness of him. For the way he’s far more capable than he seems. Thoughtful. Considerate. Quietly intelligent.Way sexier than he appears.Suddenly impossible to ignore.But Matt isn’t what he seems. A darkness runs beneath Delaware Grange. Insidious. Creeping. Buried deep.Sofia was little more than a challenge. A box for Matt to check. An assignment to complete.Until he fell.Hard.Now all he sees is her. All he wants is her. And all he knows is she has no idea who he truly is. While Sofia fights her feelings in the face of forbidden fruit, Matt wrestles with the reality of his true purpose on the estate.The pair fall into an intoxicating, passionate, volatile romance.As winter deepens and Christmas closes in, two lonely souls struggle to find peace in each other, and trust becomes the most dangerous choice on the estate.Falling for Matt threatens everything Sofia has worked so hard to build. Falling for Sofia might just be the making of Matt.That Boy is a Dual POV, high-heat, secret-identity romance where desire, deception, and devotion collide in a snowy small-town Christmas.While not required, it is highly suggested to read Nightshade before That Boy.Author’s Note: Each novel in The Cheshire Set can be read as a standalone, but the following order avoids spoiling the reading experience of earlier books.Recommended Reading Order for The Cheshire Set:BaneNightshadeThat BoyEve Was Framed, a prequel novella to Bane, isn’t strictly part of The Cheshire Set but is available for free download on the author’s website.