Guarding Her Heart (Willow Creek Romance #3)

2025 | Contemporary | Romance

I was Willow Creek's confirmed bachelor. Never wanted more than a night. Never stayed for breakfast.

Then Sophia MacKenzie arrived.

Curves that make my uniform feel too tight. Eyes that see straight through my defenses. A mouth I'm dying to claim.

She's off-limits. Widowed. Wounded. Running from a past that wants her dead.

But when she looks at me like I'm her salvation? When her breath catches every time I get close? When that little pulse in her throat jumps whenever I say her name?

All my rules burn to ash.

Someone wants to destroy the life she's building. Corrupt cops. Deadly secrets. A conspiracy that reaches deeper than we imagined.

I should walk away. Keep it professional.

Instead, I'm watching every move she makes. Craving what I can't have. Letting her six-year-old daughter wrap herself around my heart until I can't breathe without them.

Sophia thinks she's broken. That she'll never burn for another man.

She's about to learn how wrong she is.

Every heated glance. Every stolen touch. Every night I guard her body with mine—I'm claiming pieces of her soul.

She can run from her feelings. I'll chase her down.

She can build walls around her heart. I'll tear them apart with my bare hands.

She can tell herself this is just protection.

But when I get her alone in my cabin, when she's trembling beneath my touch, when she's crying my name into the darkness—she'll know the truth.

This widow belongs to me now.

And I'm keeping her.

Forever.

Colby Quinn (Author)