The Wild Card: a Lightning Cove Novel

Penelope Hastings has the perfect life. Loving parents, loyal friends, the most sought after man in town only has eyes for her, and all the freedom to embrace the wild child within her soul. So why does she feel so unsatisfied? After her boyfriend ditches her for a night of networking with his step-father’s law firm crowd, Penelope is left questioning some of the choices she had once thought were in her best interest. When the owner of the hottest local beach bar catches her eye, Penelope realizes that not all of life’s plans are set in stone.Elias Santos has lived a good life. Are there a dozen things he wishes he had done differently? Of course. But no one can change the past, and Elias believes firmly in living the in present. So when the beautiful disaster that is Penelope Hastings walks into his bar Elias is not afraid to grab life by the proverbial horns and take on the chaos she offers.Who cares that’s she’s twenty-one and he’s thirty-seven?Who’s going to stop them?Ironically, there is one very loud presence in both their lives that might try do just that.