

“… he was beyond perfect from the top of his dark brown-haired head to his usually boot-clad feet. Kristen Ashley once again touts her skill at drawing out emotions with a story that is well paced and balanced, a perfect mix of heart, sexiness, suspense and action. There was a bit of a fairytale feel to their romance and I actually loved how the story evolved and flourished. This is definitely one of my favorite KA reads! Imbued with so much heart, fragility, goodness, loyalty and hope, Mitch and Mara’s story is truly about moving beyond your past, beyond the bad stuff, beyond the kinds of things we assume define us. Hot law man Mitch disagrees and his challenge is to convince Mara to let go of her past and he sets about building a family at the same time he finds he also needs to protect them all against known and unknown adversaries that would tear them apart. Suddenly, Mara finds she has on her hands the guardianship of two kids and a gorgeous police detective who’s willing to do anything to help out… including giving fabulous foot rubs.īut Mara knows who she is and where she came from and she knows Detective Mitch Lawson is better than her. Mara gives it a go but finds herself running away from him (literally) on their first date, standing him up their second and then she runs into him (again literally) on her way to save her ne’er do well, criminal cousin’s kids who’d just run away from their ne’er do well, criminal Dad. Being a good guy, Mitch offers to help then he invites himself over for pizza.

Then one day Mara’s faucet won’t turn off and she knows nothing about plumbing. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s her dream man. It was not a stalker kind of love she knows she has no hope since Mitch is way out of her league.

For four years, she has secretly watched her dream man from afar. Sweet, shy Mara Hanover is in love with her neighbor.
