Providence Gold Series by Mary B. Moore, Dark Water Covers

Madix  From the outside looking in, I’ve got it all. An awesome career, an amazing sister, good friends…what else could I ask for?  The answer to that would be - the love of someone not related to me. Specifically, the woman who kissed me at midnight on New Year’s Eve and then disappeared into the crowd. The same woman who reappeared a day ago on the plane that I was on.  She’s trouble and mayhem andI don’t want to obsess over her, but I’ll be damned if I can stop... moreMadix  From the outside looking in, I’ve got it all. An awesome career, an amazing sister, good friends…what else could I ask for?  The answer to that would be - the love of someone not related to me. Specifically, the woman who kissed me at midnight on New Year’s Eve and then disappeared into the crowd. The same woman who reappeared a day ago on the plane that I was on.  She’s trouble and mayhem andI don’t want to obsess over her, but I’ll be damned if I can stop. Dahlia It wasn’t my fault he thought I was having an allergic reaction on the flight. I tried to tell him the truth, but my tongue was too swollen. What are the chances of me totally embarrassing myself twice in front of him? For me – it was a given. Same day, not once but twice! Now, I can’t get those steel gray eyes out of my mind. Every time I allow myself to think, or even blink, there they are front and center. Apparently, we know each other, semi-intimately as well, and he seems offended that I don’t remember, but my mind is one chaotic mess.  A walking chaos, the definition of calamity, shouldn’t be the perfect match for someone who’s organized to the point of being anal – should it? Or will he run for the hills? less

Lily The one time I do something irresponsible it blows up in my face. Two pink lines, the word pregnant mocking me, a blue cross… twenty-six pregnancy tests in total, all screaming the same thing at me - Girl, you’re pregnant AF.  The problem was, I wasn’t sure Tate even remembered our night together.  There was no question in my mind, I was keeping my baby. The only issue was - I needed to break the news to him, too... moreLily The one time I do something irresponsible it blows up in my face. Two pink lines, the word pregnant mocking me, a blue cross… twenty-six pregnancy tests in total, all screaming the same thing at me - Girl, you’re pregnant AF.  The problem was, I wasn’t sure Tate even remembered our night together.  There was no question in my mind, I was keeping my baby. The only issue was - I needed to break the news to him, too. I had time to figure out the way I was going to do it, how hard could it be? At least, that was my plan until my best friend revealed the news to the entire bar… including the man in question. Tate I’d been trying to figure out a way to ask Lily out ever since she’d moved to town and taken over her grandad’s bar. Apparently, car problems, man problems, and a couple bottles of Johnny Walker were the cure for that – or the accelerant for stupidity.  The only proof I had when I woke up that our night together hadn’t been a dream was the pair of her panties in my shoe. How they’d gotten in there, I had no clue, but that pink scrap of lace was the best thing I’d ever seen because it made what had happened real..  The situation with my cousins got in the way, and I was frustrated I still couldn’t remember every detail from that night by the time I came home to Gonzales County . Then, I walked into the bar and smelled her perfume as she passed me, and all of it came flooding back. That wasn’t the best part of the night. No – that was finding out I was going to be a dad, just as some twat punched me in the face. I wish I could say I was sorry, but I wasn’t.  Now all I had to do was convince Lily to take a chance on me. less

Charlotte  Two years ago, my life changed. All it took was a lot of alcohol - mainly tequila - and my friend’s fortune-telling grandmother reading my future. Apparently, my life was going to change when I turned twenty-one, but she never said how exactly. Just so that I have no regrets, I’m working through my bucket list, and I’m adamant I’ll get through it all.  And then I meet Levi Townsend, the man who tests my limits... moreCharlotte  Two years ago, my life changed. All it took was a lot of alcohol - mainly tequila - and my friend’s fortune-telling grandmother reading my future. Apparently, my life was going to change when I turned twenty-one, but she never said how exactly. Just so that I have no regrets, I’m working through my bucket list, and I’m adamant I’ll get through it all.  And then I meet Levi Townsend, the man who tests my limits. That bucket list is now spinning out of control, and he’s making me wonder what if… Does it even matter though? Not with the big day apparently coming soon.  But finding out that it’s all been one big huge lie, and that I was betrayed by someone I trusted? How do you recover from that? Levi Who the hell believes in that fortune telling stuff? Oh, she does! It’s just my luck that the woman I keep bumping into and can’t get out of my head is convinced she’s jinxed, and measures every minute of her day like it’s her last. Then again, maybe it is?  Being a Townsend, I’m going to test her self-control, push her boundaries, drive her crazy… and I can’t wait. But, what happens when it turns from ‘just fun between friends’ to ‘this isn’t friendship, it’s freaking love’? I’ll repeat – I’m a Townsend. We’re determined, we’re loyal, we’re honest, we love deeply and we’ll drive you out of your ever-loving mind until you say yes. She says the betrayal hurts so bad that she’ll never trust anyone ever again. So, I’ll just have to change her mind! less