Safe Anchor
(2026)(A book in the Secondhand Hearts series)
A novel by Charlene Tess and Judi Thompson
On a harrowing New Year’s Eve in Savannah, ER doctor Sarah Tunsil fights to save the life of a teenage boy left bleeding from multiple stab wounds.
Moments later, Detective Joe ‘Coop’ Cooper storms into the trauma bay—desperate for news about Oscar Lopez, the orphaned teen he mentors and cares for like family.Sarah and Coop have crossed paths before, but it didn’t go well. Her sharp distrust of cops, born from a painful marriage to one, met his instant suspicion that she was nothing but trouble. They walked away convinced they were better off keeping their distance.
But as Oscar’s life hangs in the balance and danger closes in, Sarah and Coop are drawn together again. Working to protect the boy forces them to see each other with new eyes. Walls begin to crumble. Sparks begin to kindle.
And the more deeply they become tangled in Oscar’s world, the more they realize their first impressions weren’t just wrong—they might cost them a chance at something neither expected and both desperately need.
♥ A wounded boy brought them together. The truth, and a second chance at love, might be what saves them all.
Genre: Romantic Suspense