Desire Bay Series

She's all snark. He's sexy as sin. And there's nothing like a little competition to turn up the heat… Laura Baughman is taking her life back. After a decade away, she's returning to the small town she couldn't wait to leave after graduation—to take over her late mother's beloved flower shop. Yet once she arrives, Laura discovers the store has been neglected and her father has partnered in construction with Jake Lock. The once-scrawny high school band geek is now successful—and irresistibly sexy—and set to inherit her family's business. That is, unless Laura can prove in the next thirty days that she has what it takes to run the company. Despite the heat between Jake and Laura, romance is out of the question. After her last disastrous relationship, Laura has sworn off men—especially one bent on crushing her dreams. That's just fine with Jake, who thinks the gorgeous blonde is a pain in the neck…though admittedly one he'd like to put his lips all over. Jake has a proposal to mix business with pleasure. But when a deal goes south, Laura is ready to pack up and skip town all over again. Does he have what it takes to convince her to stay?

They married on a whim, and then she disappeared from his life. Now he's determined to find her and convince her to make their marriage workz.… It's all happening for Hannah Hastings. After ten years of slinging drinks, she's about to go from bartender to bar owner. But before she can sign her name to the deed, a blast from her not-so-distant past comes blowing into her hometown of Yachats, Oregon. It's Grant Laythem, the man it seems she can't resist. And he's come looking for his runaway bride . . . Set to inherit a multi-million-dollar company, Grant is used to women wanting to get him into bed—and get into his bank account. But not Hannah. Bedded, wedded, and abandoned after a passionate two-week fling, he never even had the chance to tell her who he really was. All he knows is that she wanted him, no strings attached. And now that he's had a taste of something real, he's not about to let it slip away. Can Grant convince her to give their marriage a shot? Or will Hannah continue to run from the only love she's ever known?