Good Behavior
(2026)(The second book in the Time Off for Good Behavior series)
A Story by Madison Joy
I am not a man who makes impulsive decisions.
I am a US Marshal who ran a background check, reviewed a case file for eleven weeks, drove forty-three minutes early to a federal correctional facility, and brought granola bars.
These are the actions of a man with a plan.
The plan did not account for Mara Collins: former CFO, federal parolee, and the only person I’ve ever met who can make a Ponzi scheme involving counterfeit vibrators sound like a clerical error. She walked out of that facility and got into my car like she’d been expecting me.
She had not been expecting me.
I had, technically, been expecting her.
We don’t need to dwell on that.
What I was not prepared for: a road trip to Utah, a motel called h Desert Ros, one bed, a river hike that required full disclosure of the water temperature, and the specific problem of a woman who notices everything, argues about everything, and is right about most things.
Except the French press.
She is wrong about the French press.
I have been alone for four years. I am good at it. I am thorough, consistent, and professionally detached.
I was forty-three minutes early.
A funny road trip romance about a buttoned-up federal marshal, a woman who just got out of prison, and the second chance neither of them saw coming.
Genre: Romance
I am a US Marshal who ran a background check, reviewed a case file for eleven weeks, drove forty-three minutes early to a federal correctional facility, and brought granola bars.
These are the actions of a man with a plan.
The plan did not account for Mara Collins: former CFO, federal parolee, and the only person I’ve ever met who can make a Ponzi scheme involving counterfeit vibrators sound like a clerical error. She walked out of that facility and got into my car like she’d been expecting me.
She had not been expecting me.
I had, technically, been expecting her.
We don’t need to dwell on that.
What I was not prepared for: a road trip to Utah, a motel called h Desert Ros, one bed, a river hike that required full disclosure of the water temperature, and the specific problem of a woman who notices everything, argues about everything, and is right about most things.
Except the French press.
She is wrong about the French press.
I have been alone for four years. I am good at it. I am thorough, consistent, and professionally detached.
I was forty-three minutes early.
A funny road trip romance about a buttoned-up federal marshal, a woman who just got out of prison, and the second chance neither of them saw coming.
Genre: Romance
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