See Through You

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eugenia</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Several years ago I had it all. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Married to a wealthy banker in New York my social worker career on the rise this girl from the South side of Chicago had left behind her hard knock life. But the fairytale could not silence my demons or heal me from my family's past tragedy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now I'm a single mother in a bare-knuckled court battle with my ex-husband and on the brink of losing the most important person to me--my son. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I can't foul up again. So I'm not taking any risks. Not on crazy social scenes not on foreign excursions with strangers and not on romance. Especially not with the brazen rowdy likes of Keenan McLain.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Keenan</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hell I'm a roughneck from Baltimore who loves his smash-first-ask-questions-later lifestyle. As the CEO of the East Coast's new black-owned luxury adventure company I can have practically any </span>woman<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> here in the Hamptons I want. But damn I'm growing obsessed with only one.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our Christmas hookup a few months ago was supposed to be a one-and-done. But Eugenia was too explosive a quiet storm with depth she hides from the world and I want more of. </span></p><p>But that night really was just a puff-puff-pass for her<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. She's older than me. People say she's got issues but I'm the one having withdrawals over her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Am I really ready to give up my life and go all in to be her man? How do I convince her to move on from her past despair and take a risk with her heart one more time? Especially for an unproven young hood like me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is Book 4 of <em>Explore Men of the Hamptons</em> and can be read as a standalone. It has a prequel novella offered for free on Lula White's web site--<em>Christmas Down Under</em>-- but it is not necessary to understand this storyline. This is a complete narrative and an HEA.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tropes: <em>Older woman/younger man</em> <em>family drama </em>s<em>econd chance single parent divorce vacation romance</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heat level: 4/5</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Trigger warnings: <em>neurodiversity family conflict discussions of grief death mental health alcoholism suicide homicide & explicit language</em></strong></p>