Seaside Serenade

For former boxing champion turned gym owner Brock Garner, having Cree Redmond, dark-haired, tattooed, combat-boot-wearing, and impossible to ignore, flitting around his club has slowly driven him to distraction. He has wanted her since the first moment he saw her, and when he learns she sings with the voice of an angel, it reaches a part of his heart he can no longer talk himself out of. There is just one problem: Cree is dating a burly biker and is firmly off-limits, or so Brock believes. Over one fun-filled weekend among family and friends, the pull between the guarded gym owner and the free-spirited singer becomes impossible to resist, and Brock decides he is done holding back. A shorter, standalone story within the larger Love in Bloom collection, it trades the slow build of a full novel for a concentrated rush of chemistry, laughter, and heart, as two people who assumed they could never be together begin to question that assumption. Set against the warmth of a close-knit circle, it is a quick, flirty escape into a romance that catches them both by surprise.