Madd CrossFit Series by Lani Lynn Vale

Taos was tired.Tired of everything that came with living. Not to the point where he was suicidal or anything, but tired enough that he just didn’t give a crap anymore.He’d seen all the ugliness this world had to offer due to his job as a police officer for way too many damn years of his less than stellar life. After finding a way to sustain his spending habits that didn’t include having criminals point guns at his face, he quits without a backward glance... moreTaos was tired.Tired of everything that came with living. Not to the point where he was suicidal or anything, but tired enough that he just didn’t give a crap anymore.He’d seen all the ugliness this world had to offer due to his job as a police officer for way too many damn years of his less than stellar life. After finding a way to sustain his spending habits that didn’t include having criminals point guns at his face, he quits without a backward glance.Only, he just can’t step away from old habits.Old habits that have to do with a beautiful young woman that makes his heart feel like it isn’t nearly as broken as it is.Fran has experienced more than her fair share of crap. After an attack that nearly took her life, she stays hidden in her house, fearful that stepping out of her comfort zone will be the final nail in her coffin.Then her sister forces her to face her fears, and she joins Madd CrossFit.There, she meets the man that saved her life a year ago, and realizes rather quickly that he doesn’t even realize who he is to her.He’s everything she ever thought a man should be and wants nothing to do with her.Maybe she’ll have to give him a reason to look her way.And damned if she doesn’t find a way to do it.She didn’t plan on nearly getting killed for that to happen, though.At least not again. less

Mavis always assumed that she would be in a hospital with the good drugs when her time came. Not in the middle of the road, with no one around but the damn town mechanic that hated her.But there she was, having a rock star’s baby, with no one to rely on but the one that let it be known around every turn that she was a horrible person.From the time that she met Murphy and became best friends with him at the age of eight, she knew he was destined for greatness... moreMavis always assumed that she would be in a hospital with the good drugs when her time came. Not in the middle of the road, with no one around but the damn town mechanic that hated her.But there she was, having a rock star’s baby, with no one to rely on but the one that let it be known around every turn that she was a horrible person.From the time that she met Murphy and became best friends with him at the age of eight, she knew he was destined for greatness.But then her grandmother fired Murphy’s mom, forcing them to live on the streets, and making Murphy to realize that maybe they weren’t best friends after all.Murphy loved Mavis.At least, he had when he was younger, before she betrayed him.From that moment forward, Murphy goes out of his way to stay the hell away from her, and always makes sure to never get too close. Even though everything inside of him screams to make contact.When he moves back to town after being gone for five years, he tries his best to stay away.But there she is at his CrossFit gym. Then having a baby on the side of the road. Oh, and breaking him a little more with each step she takes away.Eventually, they find their way back to each other. The only problem is, by the time that Mavis makes her way back into his heart, it breaks. And not in a rhetorical way. In the ‘he only has days to live’ kind of way. less

Two years ago, Cannel Crow experienced the worst day of her life. She was taken from a supermarket, and forced to spend a year with a man that treated her worse than a neglected, chained up dog. One year later, she’s saved by a shadow organization that believes the law is a joke, and the only person you can count on is you... moreTwo years ago, Cannel Crow experienced the worst day of her life. She was taken from a supermarket, and forced to spend a year with a man that treated her worse than a neglected, chained up dog. One year later, she’s saved by a shadow organization that believes the law is a joke, and the only person you can count on is you. After another year, she finally realizes the law’s limitation firsthand when the man that bought her from human traffickers, and then forced her to comply to his every whim for a year, is given a plea bargain for names of others in the operation. Knowing that her abuser will spend the rest of his life in the lap of luxury under an assumed name, Cannel spirals. At least, she begins to. Then Wilhelm Schultz, call me Will, walks into her narrow world, larger than life, and changes her reality between one breath and the next. The abrasive, larger, gruff police detective sees the world in black and white. There is right, and there is wrong. Until he falls for a woman that needs him to see shades of gray. The second he sees the world like she needs him to, there’s not a single thing on the planet that’ll stop him from fighting for her. Not even the oath he swore to protect and do no harm. less