Play For Keeps: A small town single mom, age gap romance (Haven Harbor)I had one very big reason to swear off men forever: My cheating ex husband. Our marriage may have been a total disaster, but it did give me my beautiful daughter Birdie. She's the only good thing that man ever brought to my life. So, when I packed up the car and headed to the small town of Reed Point to start a new life with my little girl, I vowed that a relationship and the heartache and destruction that would inevitably follow was not part of the

As a child

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they discover all of each other’s most hidden truths--and how perfectly they might be suited for each other after all

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Her mother’s sudden disappearance—and the discovery of a dangerous secret about her past—offer Diem an unexpected opportunity to enter the dark world of Descended royalty and unlock a web of mysteries left behind by her mother

she’s not sure how she’s going to afford to make ends meet… until the cute kicker comes to her rescue

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Nora starts to accept that love isn’t such a scary story after all

Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place

If gathering a slew of iron relics could help me overthrow the current monarch and crown his brother to rule at my side

… The romance

But he is everywhere