At 21, Calla hasn’t donea lot of things. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, nevergone to an amusement park. But growing up, she witnessed some things nochild ever should. She still carries the physical and emotional scars ofliving with a strung-out mother, Mona—secrets she keeps from everyone,including her close circle of college friends.But the safecocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her momhas stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in hername. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she'd leftbehind and clean up her mom’s mess again. Of course, when she arrivesat her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Instead, six feet ofhotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the placehumming.Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from themoment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. Andthe way he looks at her makes it clear he wants to get horizontal . . .and maybe something more. Before Calla can let him get close, though,she’s got to deal with the pain of the past—and some very bad guys outto mess her up if she doesn’t give them her mom.