Teacher Laurel Tanner couldn't stop hearing her ex-husband's words. And then she met Cort Morente. The injured, brooding detectivewas the hottest hunk in her new hometown. And when Laurel and Cort worked together tohelp Tommy, a troubled boy at school, they didthe impossible—they began to fall in love!
But her husband's hateful words still haunted her.Laurel could never tell Cort the secret she'd keptburied deep inside. She was convinced it was thereal reason her husband had left. The real reasonshe could never be the woman Cort needed.
Even though his eyes and his lips were telling herotherwise…
Rating 3.5 stars When I started this book I wasn't aware that it was part of a series but well the arrival of the hero's brothers clued me in. The hero was in an accident a year ago that changed the course of his life. His injuries make him ineligible to go back to being a cop again and now he's drifting, thinking of going back to law school which he quit when his fiancee died but he's also helping his grandparents out. A friend intervenes and asks for his help with an angry eleven year old boy and that is how he meets the heroine, a teacher at the school. Both the hero/heroine are starting over. The heroine moved after the betrayal of her friend and husband plus losing her baby and infertility. Both of them are wary and I liked the slow simmering romance. The hero was a sweet-heart and so patient when the heroine could be a pain. I got irritated by the heroine, here was the hero offering her everything while she was not willing to trust and tell him the complete truth. Besides, that I liked the book.