Garrett Cooper is grumpy. Bossy. Rude. We’re supposed to work together to save my family’s hotel, but sparks fly every time we’re in the same room. And not the good kind.

Things get off to a rough start between us, and that’s on me…partially. Something to do with humiliating him after too many cocktails, and him pushing his grumpy luck too far.

In my defense, I didn’t know who he was at the time, but you better believe he left knowing who I was.

Micah Hutton is charming. Sweet. Confident. And his page in the shirtless fireman calendar for charity? Trust me, November has never been hotter. But like Grandma says: it’s never the angels who look like sin.
Micah promised he’d love me forever. And I believed him, enough to give myself to him the night before my parents dragged me across the country, tearing us apart. He broke my heart—and his promise—by disappearing the moment I learned I was pregnant.

I imagine it like a fairy tale. After a lifetime of never having enough, my career is about to hit dream-come-true status. Not only am I working with the hottest architect in the country, but we’re designing a home for none other than Nathan West—the wealthy philanthropist everyone knows and loves to drool over.

And. Then. We. Meet.

Nick Hutton was everything a girl could want. Tall, dark and totally Marine.

“I fell in love with you the moment we met.” Those are the words he whispered as we stood face-to-face in the moonlight the night before he left. He promised after that tour of duty we would start dreaming of a happily-ever-after.