Best Kept Secrets

Zoey Chandler has spent the last year quaking in her boots, scared of her own shadow... and the male population in general.So when Deputy Chase Manning, her brother's best friend, moves back to their small hometown after years in a metropolitan police department, she is both wary and intrigued when she realizes he shares traumas as deeply scarring as her own.In an effort to return a semblance of safety and strength to Zoey's life, Chase makes a proposal; he wants to train her in self-defense techniques to better protect her... and her infant child.But Chase has a secret; he's been offered his own proposal, one that if he chooses to accept, could very well destroy the life Zoey has fought so hard to build.