Defending A Promise

She was his best friend’s twin sister. Off-limits. Then she came home running from a stalker - and all bets were off.Riley Ashford has been strong for five years straight: through losing her twin brother and her son’s father on the same terrible day, through raising Nicholas alone, through the escalating threats from a stalker convinced her little boy belongs to them. Moving home to Hibiscus Harbor was supposed to be the fresh start. The safe place.Then a note appears where no stranger should have been able to leave it.Officer Declan Hayes has loved Riley since they were five years old - quietly, hopelessly, from behind the line his best friend’s memory drew. But when her past follows her home, the line stops mattering. He moves Riley and her son under his roof, puts the full weight of the Hibiscus Harbor PD behind finding the stalker, and makes her a promise: you will never face this alone again.In the safety of Declan’s house, twenty years of unspoken feelings finally catch fire. Nicholas starts asking if Declan is going to marry his mommy. Even the dog has chosen her family.Then the stalker does the unthinkable - and Declan is racing against time to save a little boy in light-up sneakers and bring him home.Some promises bend. This one doesn’t.Defending A Promise is Book Three in the Hibiscus Harbor series - a heart-pounding romantic suspense with a protector cop hero, a brother’s-best-friend slow burn years in the making, a scene-stealing four-year-old, and the small-town found family readers love. Standalone HEA; the whole town shows up.One-click today - Declan keeps his promises.