Forbidden

BUY

A gruesome string of murders, a shadowed past, and a woman who’s not afraid to fight for the truth.

Josephine “Joey” Warwick is confused. Five years ago, she expressed an interest in cyber expert Leo Gallardo, only to have him friend-zone her in no uncertain terms. A decision she’s respected ever since. So why is he spending his days swimming from her beach and his nights sleeping in her guest room? Sure, he helped her through a health scare no one else knows about, but that doesn’t explain the way he looks at her now.

Leo has his reasons for keeping his distance from Joey. The problem is, after an unexpected trip to the emergency room, he can’t bring himself to leave the woman who’s always held his interest, his heart, and the starring role in all his fantasies. Even if he can’t, in all good conscience, do anything about those fantasies—at least he has the unsolved murder of a distant cousin he’s never met before to distract him. He doesn’t expect the case or spending time with Joey to be easy, but he also never expected to find a killer targeting his mom.

With an unknown murderer on the loose, keeping each other at arm’s length is no longer an option. Especially not when the killer might hold the answers Leo has sought his entire life. The answers that might allow him to love Joey the way he’s always wanted.