Leaf You Hanging

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack Ellis is getting along just fine. Well fine enough at least. He works at his bar. He takes care of his grandmother. But no one really knows how thoroughly he's hidden himself away. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's the price you pay when everyone remembers you as a troublemaking teenage delinquent. It doesn't matter that he's now over thirty and a successful business owner. Small towns and small minds never seem to change. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bonnie Jensen is the consummate good girl. She dedicates her time to her family friends and community. She loves her job and her students. Her loyalty knows no bounds. That's why on the day her divorce is final she'd do anything to wipe the slate clean and prove to herself that she isn't doomed to love her ex-husband for the rest of her miserable life. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Bonnie's presence in Jack's bar threatens the delicate equilibrium he's worked so hard to protect Jack finds himself in an interesting predicament. One night of brutal honesty connects them igniting an unexpected friendship neither of them could have predicted. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack starts to wonder what he could possibly offer the woman who takes care of everyone around her. Turns out a friends-with-benefits arrangement is just what the good girl had in mind. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But as time goes on it quickly becomes clear that there's more to the old saying opposites attract. Bonnie couldn't have known that Jack would guard her heart as fiercely as he does his own. Nor could she have anticipated the softness he keeps tucked away. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sometimes taking a walk on the wild side leads to unforeseen consequences like losing your heart to the motorcycle-riding former bad boy you never saw coming. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book #4 in the Kirby Falls small-town contemporary series follows the spicy romance between a people-pleasing school teacher and the tattooed bartender with a troublemaking past. 'Leaf You Hanging' is a full-length novel filled with humor heat and a swoony happily ever after. </em></p><p></p>