Double Shot – Paperback

Two years ago, Beau Mercer drank a double shot every morning from the only woman who ever made him want to stay past the pour – and shipped out without saying the thing. Now she’s waitressing at the county diner under a name that isn’t hers, hiding from an ex-fianc who doesn’t accept no.

Beau recognizes her in one heartbeat. So he does the kindest, stupidest thing available: he orders like a stranger.

She serves him like one. The county – which made them a couple by week two and has money on the pie – settles in to watch the worst-kept secret in Texas pretend itself in a window booth, one slice at a time. But her past has patient money and a long reach, and when it finds her, the quietest Mercer will cross two counties to stand in the blast radius while she decides.

Second chance, hidden identity, he-fell-first (years first), a proposal you will quote forever, and a grovel that flips the script. Scorching, hilarious, complete HEA.