Hide & Sneak
Adult Contemporary Romance
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When life gave her lemons, twenty-three-year-old Clarissa Michaels ran away from them. For her, it seemed like heartache after heartache without any sign of letting up. Between her more than dysfunctional family and constantly moving around, she never thought she’d truly be able to settle anywhere—that she belonged anywhere.
Until she finally found a place she felt comfortable in. Two houses, built so close the roofs are touching, in the middle of nowhere, Michigan. Briana and Dean Adler are cousins from the well-off families who own these homes, and every June, they’re allowed to bring a group of friends to stay with them for the entire month.
Rissa has never been fond of secrets, especially if she has to keep them from Bri—but this one is a little deeper than the latter could imagine. Over the years, Dean has become her rock ever since the two bonded over mutually awful pasts. They’re inseparable and protective over each other, but their classic game of hide and sneak may not be as secretive as they thought.
Last summer, everything went wrong for Rissa and Dean. What was once a friendship tight knit and impossible to break has now crumbled before her eyes. In her attempt to make it up to him, old wounds get opened, hearts are on the line, and not everyone may have as blissful of a summer as they’re all used to.
Avoiding the Truth (And You)
Adult Contemporary Romance
Laurel Caldwell has had her fair share of screwed up life experiences, but never does she let them get her down. Rarely does she hold grudges as serious as the one against Jace Richards, her ex-boyfriend from three years ago. What was seen as a short relationship on the outside had life-altering consequences for anxiously attached Laurel. After receiving a promotion in her career and being invited to a holiday party for an important client of her brokerage firm, not only does she run into Jace again, but now they must work together to secure her biggest implementation season yet.
Avoidantly attached Jace has already ruined Laurel’s life once, and she refuses to fall for the same charms she did three years ago. Ignoring the new, incessant twitch in her eye whenever she’s in his presence, she finds him not as insufferable as she originally remembered. Amidst his attempts to explain the past, she insists on keeping their relationship strictly professional—once the project is over, she won’t have to worry about him or see him again…at least not until the following year.
Toward the end of the season, she begins to realize that all of the reasons she fell for him in the first place are still in tact, and when he insists he’s healed, he reminds her of the words she said to him before things ended: how she’d never turn him away if he was willing to put in the work. Warring between the risk to her career if things go south and the implications of her heart, she must choose if Jace is worth a second chance or if the dreaded anxious-avoidant cycle is too powerful to ignore.
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