If You Can't Take the Heat

 

Amanda was having the worst day of her life, and it wasn’t until she heard the door bursting open and she saw her potential rescuer that she could breathe again. The man who regularly starred in her dreams for years was there ready to fight for her. After the devastating news she received earlier that day, all of the obstacles that kept them apart just didn’t matter anymore. He served time for a violent offense, he was much younger than her and not to mention her son’s employee at the bar, but staring into his eyes she knew he would burn the world for her. Even though there was nothing he could do to solve this problem, she was going to fall into his arms if he would have her.

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Tiny did his best to prove that he was more than his violent past. While the reason he committed his crime was justified, the courts didn’t seem to agree. He did his time and settled with a good job as the kitchen manager and cook at McKenna’s. The kitchen was his refuge and he enjoyed creating new entrees and working with the staff at the bar. However, resisting the temptation that was his boss’ mother, Amanda, had been the greatest challenge of his life. From the minute she greeted him at the bar there was something that always pulled him towards her. Now it’s been years of being close but not crossing that line, but when he heard her screams next door and found her nearly as broken as her china that surrounded her, all the walls and reasons for staying just friends disappeared with her pleading eyes.

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They finally found their way to each other, but they will have more than Amanda’s battle to fight, because Tiny’s past may not be as far away as they thought.