It should have been over. The words echoed in Laura Kensington’s head again and again. Patrick was dead. She and her baby should both be safe. She shouldn’t be standing on a Texas ranch with barely a penny to her name asking a stranger to take her in. She wasn’t expecting the man in front of her, either.
She’d been told to ask for a woman named May. When Cade Bishop answered the door, feelings she hadn’t felt in years slammed through her. Attraction was the least of it. The longer she stayed, the more she started to feel things she has no business feeling. Like hope. Possibility. Happiness. She couldn’t do this. Couldn’t stay and risk everything. Her baby, her safety, her heart.
Cade Bishop had no business feeling the kinds of things he was feeling for Laura. He was supposed to be protecting her, keeping her safe. The best way to do that was to keep her on his ranch where no one could get to her. And if she knew the things he was thinking about her, what he really wanted to do whenever she came close, she’d be on the run again. But damn, she was crushing his resolve every time she turned that sexy smile his way. Still, he’d put her safety and happiness over his desire any day. And keeping her safe from her past meant keeping a handle on his feelings at all costs.
Love and Protect is the first book in the Heroes of Evers, TX romantic suspense series. It is a standalone book with no cliffhanger, but you’ll fall for the characters and town so much, you’ll want to read them all.
