A Guy's Best Friend

For six months, Emma Jameson has been replaying two minutes on a New Year's Eve terrace— a stranger's kiss, cut short before she got his name, before her fiancé shoved through the door and ended the best moment of her year. She does not expect to find that stranger standing outside her car window, badge in hand, on the worst-timed traffic stop of her life. Officer Austin Galvino. Also — she realizes far too late — the "nice young houseguest" her parents have been raving about all summer, the one who took a room at their North Conway B&B right as Emma's four-year engagement began quietly coming apart. What Emma doesn't know: Austin isn't in New Hampshire by accident. He's FBI, running a stolen-vehicle trafficking case that leads straight through her fiancé's family dealership — and Emma is the one person standing close enough to blow it wide open, without the faintest idea she's anywhere near it. Over one long, golden summer — surf-dawn mornings, a B&B that finally, wholly belongs to her, a missing-girl story that won't stop gnawing at her, and a friendship with Austin that keeps refusing to stay a friendship — Emma has to decide how much of her old life she's willing to set down. Austin has to decide whether the case, or the woman he can't stop watching, is going to cost him more. A small-town summer romance with a case to crack, a heart to mend, and a best friend who might be the only man who's ever really seen her. Book One of the 'A Guy's' series — for readers who love a slow burn, a little suspense, and a hero worth the wait.