Heartbeat

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The first book in the Courageous Love Series is a deeply emotional story of love in extraordinary circumstances developing the courage to be vulnerable after devastating life events and the ruthlessness of one man's obsession. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maya Anderson only knows success: set a goal create a plan achieve. Everything she can control she does down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now she has a new goal: </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>stay alive</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>New town. New identity. No men. A decent three-step plan to give her a fighting chance until a run-in with a local detective with haunted green eyes leaves her vulnerable in more ways than one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mike Sheppard left his hometown in the Colorado mountains a bruised broken kid vowing never to return. Yet here he is 20 years later paying dues for the dead. He's built a life protecting the vulnerable and as the town's newest detective he's determined to restore trust and honor to a department recovering from decades of corruption.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Truth. Transparency. Dedication to the law. A decent three-step plan to give him and the town a fighting chance until a run-in with a suspected drunk driver with the devil on her heels leaves him wanting more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Neither is ready for this but is anyone ever ready for the kind of love that stops your heart?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Spicy scenes laugh-out-loud moments suspense danger and epic love make this romantic suspense novel a great read for romance readers who couldn't put down Tiffany Patterson's</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> The Townsends of Williamsport </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and Penny Reid's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Winston Brothers </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>series.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This grumpy/sunshine enemies to lovers slow burn angsty multicultural contemporary romantic suspense novel marks the debut of bestselling author Terreece M. Clarke in the romance genre.</span></p>