Hunter

Given a choice, I’d date a woman who doesn’t know who I am. Like the green-eyed woman I meet on sidewalk, tears streaming down her cheeks. The one who triggers what my overprotective older brothers call my “Everhart Complex”—the uncontrollable urge to erase someone else’s pain.

This little character flaw could shred me if I let it. That’s why I don’t do family law. But it’s who I am. Who I became after my parents died.

Willow

Nothing says “successful adult” like living with my grandfather and having my little sister as my boss. But with my acting career stalled and my checking account in single digits, playing receptionist at Beesley Enterprises is a bearable humiliation.

Until he walks into the office. The man I met on the sidewalk on the worst night of my career. Mr. I’m-Going-To-Fix-Your-Life—as if I’d let him. Because just for a moment, I felt safe. I felt something besides numbness. And dammit, if I let my ice queen façade crack, I’ll be worse than back to square one.

I could fall off the edge entirely…

She had lost all hope for a better life. He came to help his sick father. One diner. Two strangers meet for the first time. And a new chance for love.

There’s nothing exciting about Rosie Porter’s life; she has been working as a waitress at a local diner in Phoenix, married to a cynical and frustrated man, and raising her teenage girl. Even though deep down she feels that she deserves more, the disappointments in her life have extinguished her inner flame and obliterated her self-confidence.

Until Doctor Jack Evans, the diner owner’s son, came along. When his father has a heart attack, Jack returns to Phoenix to help with his recovery, while trying to also assist with something that doesn’t interest him at all – running the diner.

Jack and Rosie’s first encounter goes wrong and ends up with an unpleasant incident. But Jack, who finds out that Rosie is the one person who can help him, makes her a tempting offer.

Rosie soon realizes that she is about to face many challenges, one of which is a great temptation – staying close to Jack, whom she cannot seem to get out of her mind. Although their relationship has its ups and downs, for the first time in her life Rosie feels that someone finally believes in her. Or perhaps it’s her who is changing?

Is Rosie on the way to change her life, or is the diner and Jack just another stop on her disappointment-riddled journey?