Dirty Girl Romance

The third installment of the Table 21 series finds Loraine and Rick after their demons have resurfaced. Taking matters into his own hands, Rick  tries to convince Loraine it’s never too late. Little does he know, despite her addiction, Loraine has a new life, one that can’t include him.

Gage, the assistant pastor at her sister’s church is everything a woman could want, well almost. Great with her daughter and Rick’s  complete opposite, he’s been Loraine’s rock, a rock she’s been lying to  their whole relationship.

Caught between a rock and a hard place,  Loraine sinks deeper into Rick’s darkness only to find her own. She  begins to question whether love is patient and kind or if love is  demanding and… hot? Loraine’s question is answered in a shocking way  when she discovers both men in her life have been keeping secrets.

To truly understand a story; you need to start from the beginning, but to start from the beginning; you have to go back, further than just you. After all, our stories don’t start with us, do they? Our stories start with the person before us, and the person before them. We are created from the stories of those people – from their mistakes, from their achievements, from their love and their hate.

No one’s story is ever truly their own.

I tried to create my own story, my own path, and my own actions. I’ve seen things people only see in their worst nightmares, but I never let it beat me down. I never let it become who I was.

Abby Bartlett is the quintessential nice girl. Between teaching, volunteering, completing her PhD, and helping her best friend raise his daughter, Abby never gets the chance to be anything but nice. That is, until the all-wrong-for-her man she’s only ever known from afar starts daring her to simply take that chance for herself. His sage advice? Try something wild and fast.

Preferably him.

An unbridled, hotshot attorney with a not-so-little black book, Connor Sullivan has earned himself quite the bad boy reputation. But in his defense, he’s a very conscientious one. He knows far too well that sometimes in life, love isn’t enough…or worse, not even a factor at all.