Everlasting Promises

<p><strong>Hope</strong></p><p>As a teen I fell in love with my best friend's older brother.</p><p>We made promises to each other and solidified them with marriage and a baby.</p><p>He broke his promise ... <em>I didn't.</em></p><p>Our promises were meant to be everlasting. Or so I thought.</p><p>I was wrong.</p><p></p><p>Now I'm raising our son alone and I'm too broken to be everything he needs.</p><p>Until a police officer turns up on my doorstep with my wayward son and an offer to help him deal with his grief.</p><p>The more time we spend together the more my son falls for Ben and his dog Rex.</p><p>The problem is he's not the only one falling for the duo.</p><p>I never expected to feel this way again.</p><p>Before I realize what's happening I'm breaking my promise of forever to my husband and wishing for a future with another man.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ben</strong></p><p>At eighteen I learned life's too short to take anything for granted so I don't let opportunities pass by.</p><p>I moved to the city to follow my dream of becoming a K9 handler and I've never looked back.</p><p>In my free time I work with troubled kids and hang out with Rex the best partner a cop could ask for.</p><p></p><p>Now I'm living my dream.</p><p>My job is everything I thought it would be and more-it's my life.</p><p>Until I meet Hope and her son Evan.</p><p>Their relationship is fractured and she thinks she's broken beyond repair.</p><p>She couldn't be more wrong.</p><p>The more time I spend with them the deeper I fall for their resilience in the face of devastation.</p><p>I find myself creating situations to spend more time with them and wishing they were mine.</p><p>And before I know it I'm making <em>everlasting promises</em>.</p><p></p><p>But everlasting promises are hard to keep ...</p><p>Especially when we can't control the future.</p><p></p><p><em>An emotional steam-filled contemporary romance about a widowed single mom who thinks she's broken beyond repair and the cinnamon roll officer who shows her there's beauty in the broken.</em></p>