Until Sydney

Forbidden fruit is so much more tempting… The one woman Coal Tanner was never supposed to touch was the very same he couldn't resist. She was his best friend's baby sister, putting her strictly off limits. Not to mention, she was ten years his junior. Yet, she was the only person who made him feel alive, wanted, and everything in between. When he gets a call from his friend asking him to protect her, it's not just her safety that's on the line but his heart. Sydney Manor wants to turn her life around after her family is ripped apart. Alone, she's doing her best to start over, until a man from her past swoops in, trying to save her from the dangers lurking around her. How can he protect her when he knows nothing about the sordid things her family became involved with once he'd left town, years earlier? How can she pretend they are just friends when, unbeknownst to him, he's owned her heart since he'd come to her rescue on the playground when she was six? Now that life has thrown them together again, he might have a second chance if he can keep his doubts from forcing him to push her away again—even if it's for her own good. Coal's business has taken off, keeping him working long hours, giving him everything he ever wanted. But now that she's back in his life, he realizes something's been missing—her.