by Diana Palmer
Part of Long, Tall Texans, book 51
First published 2020
Michael "Mikey" Fiore needs to disappear. The powerful businessman retreats to Jacobsville, Texas, waiting to testify in a crucial case that puts his life at risk. He plans to keep his head down and stay invisible. Then he meets Bernadette on one of his few ventures into town. She carries herself with quiet grace, but Mikey senses the weight of her own troubles. People talk in hushed voices about her health problems and how she keeps to herself. Despite the danger it brings them both, Mikey finds himself drawn to her. What starts as attraction deepens into something neither expected. Bernadette awakens feelings Mikey thought he had buried. But their growing connection cannot survive in the shadows forever. When the truth about his identity emerges, everything they have built together faces destruction.
Genres: romance, suspense, thriller, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Jacobsville, Texas
283 pages · Kindle Edition · Harlequin Special Edition