Her Wicker Temptation

I asked for another great love. I didn’t expect the right man to be nothing like the man I thought I wanted.

Four years after my husband died, I’d somehow convinced myself that being sexless was a perfectly reasonable plan for the rest of my life.

When a younger colleague dies without warning, I realize I’m not ready to quit living.

So one night, armed with an old wicker basket and a spectacular lack of good judgment, I set fire to the granny panties I chose for my new celibate life and say the thing I haven’t been willing to admit I want.

I wish I could have what I had with Dave.

What I get is Kell.

Warm living willow, broad shoulders, and a hunger for absolutely everything.

Kell attacks life like he intends to taste all of it. Music. Food. Art. Sex. He makes enormous abstract paintings, treats my body like his next masterpiece, and looks at me with enough heat to make four years of celibacy feel like an exceptionally bad decision.

Having spectacular sex with him is the easy part.

The problem is what happens afterward.

Because Kell isn’t content to just be the exciting man in my bed. He builds a life of his own: work he loves, money he earns, friends who are his, a place that belongs to him. And he wants me in that life because, somewhere along the way, I stopped being an adventure and became the woman he chose.

When I try to keep what we have safely contained to the bedroom, Kell refuses to settle for half a relationship.

Now I have to decide whether the differences I keep calling incompatibility are actually the very things that make this love worth choosing.

Maybe I didn’t get what I had before.

Maybe I got another chance at something just as real... only different.

Her Wicker Temptation is a high-heat contemporary monster romance, with scorching chemistry, a wildly creative living wicker hero, a second chance at great love, and a relationship that looks nothing like the one Laura thought she wanted.