Still Smooth as Tennessee Whiskey
(2026)(The first book in the Broken Heart Rodeo series)
A novel by Zoe Normandie
FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR ZOE NORMANDIE
Book one in the Broken Heart Rodeo series
He was her last vice. She was his first salvation.
He came back for a funeral. He stayed for her.
Ethan Kane—combat veteran, private investigator, sinner with a scarred jaw and a voice like gravel—swore Poison Creek was dead to him. But when old comrades start turning up in body bags, he’s dragged home to hunt a killer. What he doesn’t expect is Amara James—barefoot in the frame of a half-built house, mouth hot enough to brand him, eyes that once made him break every rule.
She was only fifteen when the soldier at her daddy’s table stole her heart. At eighteen, she stole a kiss back. And then he disappeared. Ten years later, Ethan’s on her ridge, pinning her with that same hard stare, kissing her like he never left—tongue, teeth, fists in her hair, every inch a promise he still owns her.
She hates him for it. She wants him for it. And when danger slams into her quiet life—cartel blood money, a fentanyl pipeline, enemies who know her land is the prize—she finds herself trapped with the one man she swore she’d never need.
Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. Rough hands, whiskey mouths, filthy promises. Ethan Kane takes control like it’s his birthright. Amara fights him every step, but her body remembers the soldier who kissed her once and made her melt.
And this time, there’s no running away.
Still Smooth as Tennessee Whiskey is a raw, country-noir romance where bullets fly, hearts break, and desire burns hotter than Tennessee summer nights.
Genre: Romance