Bourbon & Secrets

Faye Calloway left Fiasco, Kentucky, vowing never to return. She left behind the town, her family and Lincoln Foxx, the man who told her to stay away. Now she is back as a burlesque performer with a residency on the local stage. The act is a cover. She is there for a federal investigation into the corruption spreading through the town, and to protect the sister she abandoned.

Lincoln is a widower raising his child on his own, and he carries a heavy share of his family's grief. He has no space in his life for the woman who once upended it. Faye now lives under his roof and moves in his circle, though, and the pull between them has not faded.

As Faye works her way closer to the people who run Fiasco's criminal underworld, secrets begin to surface. Hers, Lincoln's and the town's all come into the open, while the curse that hangs over the Foxx name edges toward another victim.

This is romantic suspense with a single-dad hero and a hate-to-love dynamic. The burlesque setting brings showmanship, and the cast of friends and family forms a found-family core. The heat level is high. It is the second book in the Bourbon Boys trilogy.