Vanilla et Motricium Oleum

<p>My entire life I've been bound by loyalty-first to my family and then to my country-arrogantly confident in my decisions and instincts. </p><p>Finding my wife engaged to another man obliterates the foundation of everything I've ever held true.</p><p>It's only fitting that I end up back home in Lost Hope-yet my wounds start to heal here. They scar with each day passing by. Nine years later all that remains is a gruesome picture of the culmination of my worst decisions carved on my body.</p><p>My only reprieve is HER and her sweet vanilla scent.</p><p>The quintessential good girl-and painfully beautiful-she's the town's sweetheart and the balm to my shriveled soul.</p><p>I'm as hopeless as the town's name when my cruel past breaks us apart... until she returns pregnant with my child and thinking the worst of me.</p><p>My loyalty demands that I keep her close while my darkness whispers she cannot be trusted. She left me once when I needed her the most. She'll leave again when I least expect it.</p><p>We strike a feeble truce for the sake of our unborn baby and my heart doesn't stand a chance against her.</p><p>The instinct to keep my distance fades into nothingness with every stolen kiss and healing touch. </p><p>But is she strong enough to stand at my side when the ghosts of our pasts threaten to obliterate our feeble foundation once more? </p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Vanilla et Motricium Oleum</em> is the second book in the Lost Hope series of interconnected standalone novels. It's a surprise-pregnancy romance with a pinch of suspense complete with HEA and a cliffhanger introducing book three of the series. This book is intended for readers 18+ with explicit scenes mature language touching on sensitive topics and more.</strong></p>