Charming the Renegade
(2026)(Book 12 in the Renegades of Clearwater County series)
A novel by Bonnie R Paulson
The town charmer finally meets a woman immune to him — right as the real enemy walks into Bailey.
BLURB: Declan Bailey can charm anyone. It’s his whole reputation, his armor, the way he’s kept every woman at a safe and easy distance for years. Until Kami Smythe — serious, unsmiling, entirely unimpressed — looks at his best grin and doesn’t so much as blink.
Kami has no time for a flirt, no patience for the feud, and a to-do list a mile long. She certainly has no intention of thawing for a Bailey who’s never taken anything seriously in his life. But the more his charm bounces off her, the more Declan finds himself trying — really trying — for the first time, and the more Kami glimpses the earnest, aching man underneath the easy smile.
Meanwhile, a genial newcomer has settled quietly into Bailey, remembering everyone’s name, asking after everyone’s mother — and no one suspects that the kindest stranger in town is the deadliest enemy the two families have ever faced.
A grumpy-sunshine, reformed-flirt romance with the series’ biggest threat stepping out of the shadows. Sweet and clean.
reformed flirt * grumpy / sunshine * immune to his charm * he falls first * the enemy arrives * clean & sweet
Genre: Romance
BLURB: Declan Bailey can charm anyone. It’s his whole reputation, his armor, the way he’s kept every woman at a safe and easy distance for years. Until Kami Smythe — serious, unsmiling, entirely unimpressed — looks at his best grin and doesn’t so much as blink.
Kami has no time for a flirt, no patience for the feud, and a to-do list a mile long. She certainly has no intention of thawing for a Bailey who’s never taken anything seriously in his life. But the more his charm bounces off her, the more Declan finds himself trying — really trying — for the first time, and the more Kami glimpses the earnest, aching man underneath the easy smile.
Meanwhile, a genial newcomer has settled quietly into Bailey, remembering everyone’s name, asking after everyone’s mother — and no one suspects that the kindest stranger in town is the deadliest enemy the two families have ever faced.
A grumpy-sunshine, reformed-flirt romance with the series’ biggest threat stepping out of the shadows. Sweet and clean.
reformed flirt * grumpy / sunshine * immune to his charm * he falls first * the enemy arrives * clean & sweet
Genre: Romance