Dreaming of the Renegade
(2026)(The eighth book in the Renegades of Clearwater County series)
A novel by Bonnie R Paulson
He hired a housekeeper to keep his family afloat. He never dreamed she was hiding the one secret that could sink them both.
Connor Bailey has buried a wife and raised two boys alone, running the only pizza place in town — the old parlor his cousin Archer built years ago, bought back into the family — and quietly hiring both sides of a feuding county because he’s too heartsore to hate anybody. When a newcomer named Marlowe answers his ad for help around the house, she’s exactly what his broken little family needs: warm, capable, and somehow able to make a house feel like a home again.
What Connor doesn’t know is that Marlowe is a Smythe — hiding it, hiding from something, and falling for a Bailey she has every reason to keep at arm’s length. The longer she stays, the deeper the secret cuts, and the more it will cost when the truth finally comes out.
But something is changing in Bailey, Montana — something no one has seen in a hundred and forty years. And in Connor’s house, against every rule of the curse, a miracle is coming that could change everything.
An emotional, slow-burn, secret-identity romance with the sweetest surprise of the whole series. Sweet and clean.
widower * single dad * secret identity * the housekeeper * forbidden love * the first Bailey daughter * clean & sweet
Genre: Romance
Connor Bailey has buried a wife and raised two boys alone, running the only pizza place in town — the old parlor his cousin Archer built years ago, bought back into the family — and quietly hiring both sides of a feuding county because he’s too heartsore to hate anybody. When a newcomer named Marlowe answers his ad for help around the house, she’s exactly what his broken little family needs: warm, capable, and somehow able to make a house feel like a home again.
What Connor doesn’t know is that Marlowe is a Smythe — hiding it, hiding from something, and falling for a Bailey she has every reason to keep at arm’s length. The longer she stays, the deeper the secret cuts, and the more it will cost when the truth finally comes out.
But something is changing in Bailey, Montana — something no one has seen in a hundred and forty years. And in Connor’s house, against every rule of the curse, a miracle is coming that could change everything.
An emotional, slow-burn, secret-identity romance with the sweetest surprise of the whole series. Sweet and clean.
widower * single dad * secret identity * the housekeeper * forbidden love * the first Bailey daughter * clean & sweet
Genre: Romance