New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett scores big-time with the first novel in a sexy new series hot enough to melt the ice. Choices that could destroy what they have built or take them further than they ever had dared to hope. Hard choices lay ahead for both of them when Hunter is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to return to the pro surfing tour. What starts out as a mutual business arrangement soon turns into a passion that neither of them can continue to deny. Hunter struggles to reach through to Gabby’s cold heart, all while starting a new career away from his life as a top ranked, professional surfer. Working together day in and day out proves to be problematic for Gabby, who soon realizes that the feelings she had for him are still very much alive. Gabby’s well-schemed plans to ignore Hunter go up in flames when he presents an offer to her that she simply can’t refuse, throwing them together in a common quest to each reach their goals. Bitter over his rebuff years before, she’s content to stay far away from him and his dangerously charming ways. Gabby Ward is not happy that Hunter has returned. Now Hunter Markham has come back home to the sand and salty breeze of the North Carolina Outer Banks so he can open up Last Call, a beach bar nestled among the dunes of the Atlantic. He left to travel the world for fame and glory, but only after spurning Gabby Ward and crushing her young heart.
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