Note to Readers: This book was previously published as ALONE, book 1 of the Preludes series. It has been revised and expanded by approximately 10k words.

Sorento has watched parades of beautiful women walk through the doors of Electric Mist. Working double shifts to help provide for his recently widowed sister and her three girls, however, doesn’t leave a lot of time—or money—for things like dating. He especially doesn’t have time to chase a woman who doesn’t want to be caught, but after a chance encounter outside the club, he just can’t seem to get Cecily Baker out of his head.

Lovely in every sense of the word, and just as stubborn, she challenges everything he thought he knew about love and romance. The more she pushes, the harder he pushes back, determined to prove that having someone to lean on isn’t a weakness, and being strong means knowing when to bend.