The Careless Catch

CONTENT WARNING:
This book contains closed-door romantic intimacy, strong language, emotional groveling, past romantic humiliation, single-parent stress, financial pressure, toxic ex-adjacent behavior, a coercive marriage arrangement, hospitalization, parental illness, and references to an ex-husband in prison.

Luke Rhodes has always been the kind of man women notice.

Broad shoulders. Easy grin. Fresh fade. Clean charm. No strings. No regrets.

At least, that is what he tells himself.

Megan Marlowe knows better.

Back in high school, Luke was the golden football boy, and Megan was the bookish girl who helped him pass science. Behind closed doors, he wanted her. In public, he pretended she was nothing. She was his secret, his convenience, and his first real mistake.

Now Megan is a single mother of two, fighting to save her father's struggling Lake Highlands hardware store. Luke is still her most loyal customer, still leaning on her counter, still calling her Maggie like he has any right.

Then Cruz, her ex-husband's dangerous former best friend, offers Megan a way out: marry him, and he will save the store.

Luke should have no say.

But losing Megan finally forces him to see the truth. She was never just an old friend. She was the woman he hurt, the woman he took for granted, and the only woman who ever mattered.

Now Luke has to do more than want her.

He has to earn her.

The Careless Catch is a steamy second-chance contemporary romance featuring a cocky, unself-aware hero and the overlooked woman he never deserved.

CONTENT WARNING:
This book contains closed-door romantic intimacy, strong language, emotional groveling, past romantic humiliation, single-parent stress, financial pressure, toxic ex-adjacent behavior, a coercive marriage arrangement, hospitalization, parental illness, and references to an ex-husband in prison.