It Only Took You (Lake Howling, #4)

His best friend’s sister should be off-limits.

Sheriff Cubby Hawker loves his job, his mother, and his friends… but the woman side of things is not going so well. He’s had his chances, take his best bud’s sister, sexy Katie McBride. She’d thrown her heart at him and he’d been to slow to catch it. She left him the next day, and now years later, she’s a detective. A sexy, hard assed one who turns him inside out. Finding her halfway down a bourbon bottle, broken and scared, makes him want to protect her, he’s just not sure she’ll let him.

He’s got a second chance but is he brave enough to take it?

Katie McBride’s confidence is rocked when she’s shot in the line of duty. It takes another hit when Cubby Hawker finds her two days into a pity party for one.

She refuses to acknowledge that he’s still the only man she’s every wanted.

The sexy lawman had his chance… there won’t be another one. But when she returns to her hometown of Lake Howling, they are thrown together when a dead body is found. Is Katie strong enough to walk away again… does she want to?