Guarded Dreams: A Second-chance, Military Romance (An Anchor Novel Book 1)

I had a five-year plan. She ruined it with a single kiss.A slow-burn, second-chance beach romance.The Coast Guard was supposed to be my future—discipline, duty, and the men who had become my brothers.Then Ava Abrams crashes into my life.She’s a reckless, free-spirited musician with a voice that steals the air from my chest and a past she refuses to talk about.She needs a safe place to land, and I can’t turn her away, even if keeping my distance would be smarter.One kiss changes everything.Suddenly, protecting Ava matters more than the life I planned.When the past she tried to escape catches up to her, she runs.Four years later, I walk into a bar and hear a voice I know instantly. Ava.The girl who broke my heart. The woman I never stopped loving.But the past that drove her away is still waiting.And loving her this time might destroy us both.Book one in the interconnected Anchor Novels series—heartfelt, forced-proximity romances about military brothers, found family, and love that leads you home