Protected In Lonecrest County: A Protective Mountain Detective Romance (Lonecrest County Protectors #1)

She was his nurse. He used his last breath to tell her a dangerous secret.

A dying man grabs ER nurse Lily Lockhart's wrist and whispers three Hargrove. The mill. She reports it. Twenty-four hours later, someone wants her dead.

Detective Matthew Maverick is a former Army Ranger who doesn't believe in coincidences. Now with the Lonecrest County Sheriff's Department, he knows how quickly a secret can rot an institution from the inside. When Lily becomes the loose end in a case that reaches deep into his own jurisdiction, he makes a decision that could cost him his badge.

He takes her off the grid. Six days in a remote cabin outside Solitary Ridge. Backup he can count on one hand. No room for mistakes.

Matt reads people for a living. Lily survives by keeping exits mapped and emotions contained. When she plans to disappear the moment she's safe, he sees exactly what she's doing. And he won't let her.

Because protecting her stopped being just duty somewhere around day two. And he's not pretending otherwise.

When corruption closes in, and the man bleeding for her is the only reason she's still alive, Lily will have to decide which instinct is stronger - the one that keeps her running, or the one that finally makes her stay.

Lonecrest County Protectors is a contemporary romantic suspense series featuring ex-military law enforcement in a small mountain sheriff's department set in the same world as my Solitary Ridge Protectors series. Each book is a standalone spicy and sweet romance with a guaranteed HEA.