Hostage Heart: a Small Town, Single Dad, Second Chance Romance Little Secret Book

The night I met Caro Hampton, I was barely twenty—a motorcycle-riding grease monkey from the wrong side of the tracks. She was small-town royalty—an underaged, beautiful temptation who looked at me like I was everything she dreamed of and knew she couldn’t have.And I should have known better, but that didn’t stop me.“How old are you?” I asked, afraid to hear the answer.“Sixteen. Almost,” she said in a whisper.And I should have run then, but I didn’t.Instead, I waited. I kept my distance while we both burned.For two years. Almost.And she was still too young. And I was still old enough to know better.But we just didn’t care anymore.The next day she was gone, spirited away by her fiercely protective grandfather, and my life as I knew it was over. Unwelcome in my own hometown, I eventually moved on and began to rebuild my life.Now, more than a decade later, I’m back, bringing my corporate headquarters and a new factory with me. Back for a second chance at an old dream. Back to give my motherless daughter, who is everything I care about in life, the kind of childhood I never had.And everything is going according to plan until our newest corporate hire walks into my office, and I find myself being introduced to Caro Hampton, all grown up, looking gorgeous, and back to care for her recently widowed grandmother. All, while we pretend to be practically strangers.And every lie I had ever told myself about being over her went up in smoke. Moving back had just become either the best or the worst thing I had ever done.Could we find our love again? Or would our worlds fall apart if we took a second chance on what we once had and lost?Hostage Heart is a standalone, slow-burn HEA with a mystery father, star-crossed lovers, and a lifelong secret to overcome when an Alpha Male hero butts heads with a determined woman who wants to solve her own problems.