Bücher von J. E. Pace

Is it possible to find love in a place that has only hurt you?When Gretchen Stephens inherits an old farmhouse from the grandmother she barely knew, she has one practical option: sell it. After all, there's no sentiment beyond a few fuzzy memories and no money without a sale.Her resolve only solidifies when the hot handyman, Jackson, shows up to help haul off the old refrigerator. Because even if she could make the old farmhouse into the fancy event venue of her dreams-and she won't say the idea hasn't crossed her mind a time or two-the last thing she needs is some country boy to trap her in her past, and the last thing she wants is to leave the city she loves to go back to the hills of Kentucky.However, when disaster strikes one snowy night and she and Jackson have to work together to help a boy survive, Gretchen realizes she might have misjudged Jackson. And maybe the whole town.But is it too late to let the very place that wounded her finally start to heal her?

Their case may be getting cold, but their feelings for each other are just warming up. When Macie Greene gets a job in the office at the police station, she never expects to be put on a case due to her hyper-observant eyes and ears. After all, she's just a receptionist. But when she solves a case no one else can, she soon finds herself with a new job, and a new partner-the gorgeous, but standoffish, Tad Simmons. Tad isn't thrilled to have his solo gig interrupted by the new hire. He's spent his entire life trying to prove that, despite his partial blindness, he's better than anybody else at this game. Macie's involvement threatens the careful career he's built for himself. Not only that, but with her weird humor and self-effacing genius, she might even threaten the safe spaces he's built around his heart. However, when they both agree that a murder-suicide isn't what it seems, they're stuck working together. Trying to find enough proof of a murder-murder before the flicker of feelings between them gets too hot, or the case goes completely cold. And all they've got for witnesses are a few nasty relatives, some boring phone messages, and a missing dog...

When volunteer firefighter Aiden Billings gets stuck with a flat tire in rural Kentucky, he's not happy to have to drag his young daughter to a tire shop for the afternoon. But when the pretty receptionist glances his way, a sliver of his heart cracks open-something he hasn't felt since his wife died five years earlier.Nora Evans, however, has a past she's not keen on sharing, and with good reason. She's barely crested out of her life of drug use and abusive relationships, and is ready to heal. On her own.Will the two of them be able to get past the grief that has crippled their hearts? Or will it all go up in flames?