One small town. Two powerful families. Thirty years of secrets are finally reaching their breaking point.
New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello raises the stakes in the third book of the Firebrook Valley series. Get ready for a high-tech, secret-billionaire romance where a golden retriever hero meets a brilliant, guarded woman with a family who doesn't want to be found.
My family calls it naïve. I call it paying attention.
With tensions rising in Firebrook, it’s up to me to figure out what really started this decades-long feud.
I came looking for a man named Thomas Steele.
Instead, I found her.
She’s brilliant. Careful. Completely closed off and somehow still showing up everywhere I go. The more I try to understand her, the more I want to help her find her smile.
And, yeah, I’m supposed to be solving a mystery.
But I'll get there when I get there, and hopefully she'll be at my side when I do.
Then Brady Holliston showed up.
Charming. Persistent. Impossible to ignore.
So I lie to him. A lot.
I tell myself I’m studying him. Testing him. Waiting for him to slip.
But he doesn’t.
Instead, I find myself doing things I don’t do like playing cards with old women who adore him, breaking into places I shouldn’t, and waking up beside a man I was never supposed to trust.
The more we uncover, the more dangerous this becomes.
Because falling for Brady isn’t just a risk.
It’s a betrayal.
And if I step out of the shadows for him, there may be no way back.
Genre: Romance
New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello raises the stakes in the third book of the Firebrook Valley series. Get ready for a high-tech, secret-billionaire romance where a golden retriever hero meets a brilliant, guarded woman with a family who doesn't want to be found.
Brady
I’ve always been the one who sees the best in people.My family calls it naïve. I call it paying attention.
With tensions rising in Firebrook, it’s up to me to figure out what really started this decades-long feud.
I came looking for a man named Thomas Steele.
Instead, I found her.
She’s brilliant. Careful. Completely closed off and somehow still showing up everywhere I go. The more I try to understand her, the more I want to help her find her smile.
And, yeah, I’m supposed to be solving a mystery.
But I'll get there when I get there, and hopefully she'll be at my side when I do.
Elise
My father taught me three things: stay off the grid, trust no one, and never let your guard down.Then Brady Holliston showed up.
Charming. Persistent. Impossible to ignore.
So I lie to him. A lot.
I tell myself I’m studying him. Testing him. Waiting for him to slip.
But he doesn’t.
Instead, I find myself doing things I don’t do like playing cards with old women who adore him, breaking into places I shouldn’t, and waking up beside a man I was never supposed to trust.
The more we uncover, the more dangerous this becomes.
Because falling for Brady isn’t just a risk.
It’s a betrayal.
And if I step out of the shadows for him, there may be no way back.
Genre: Romance