Guarded Dreams

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He's a grumpy Coast Guard focused on a life of service. She's a feisty musician searching for stardom. Nothing about them fits and yet attraction burns wild when they end up in the same house for the summer.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </strong></p><p>I had one last summer with my best friends before the Coast Guard became my life. Quiet solidarity is what I seek. Not a free-spirited musician whose soul all but screams trouble. But when <strong>Ava Abrams</strong> lays claim to my bedroom in our beach rental I find it hard to resist her siren-like call. And when I catch a glimpse past her shiny bravado to the wounds her father left behind I'm tempted to toss my five-year plan aside just to protect her.</p><p> </p><p>Staying at our family beach house was only a temporary stop on my way to Juilliard and country music stardom. Until broody by-the-book <strong>Eli Wyatt</strong> demands I leave and I become desperate to unravel him. Too bad the kiss I provoke steals my heart along with his.</p><p> </p><p>Too bad my father tracks me down and I'm forced to run leaving Eli to face the music.</p><p> </p><p>When Eli walks into the bar I'm performing at four years later the anger in his eyes doesn't surprise me and yet I can't help craving another taste of the fairytale summer we once shared.</p><p> </p><p>We almost destroyed each other the first time around. Will this time be any different?</p><p> </p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>Just like the moon calls the tides she has called me home. To her.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Inspired by Luke Bryan's Sunrise Sunburn Sunset comes a slow-burn beach read about dreams lost and remade with vibrant characters beautiful friendships and found families.</em></p><p> </p><p>Grab the interconnected standalone series today.</p><p>Can be read in any order.</p><p>This is an alternative edition cover of the previously released novel.</p>