He should’ve never left his house. He should’ve stayed at home. He has a legitimate excuse—he’s running a fever and he’s fairly sure he’s developing pneumonia. He should have called in sick…but he doesn’t.

He goes to work, because his team is relying on him.

 First, he has to sign about eight thousand calendars—all from women who purchased said calendars to benefit the Fallen Officer fundraiser. And when he’s done with that, he has to endure a television interview along with the rest of the SWAT team seeing as they made national news with their ‘Hot SWAT’ calendar that’s sold a million copies to women all over the world.

Needless to say, when Samuel Adams walks into the pharmacy hours later, he only has one thing on his mind. Ibuprofen.

Sadly, he never gets to the Ibuprofen. Mostly because before he gets there, he finds a junkie waving a gun around threatening to kill anybody that moves.

He’s running a fever. That has to be the reason that the girl in the corner begins cursing up a storm and drawing the junkie’s attention. Has to be.

***

Stop it, stop it, stop it!

She tells herself to take a deep breath. Tells herself that she needs to calm down. Tells herself that if she doesn’t get her act under control, things are going to get ugly.

And, of course, that’s when the curse words start flying.

The more nervous she gets, the worse her Tourette’s becomes. Which is, of course, why she stands up and gives the man a perfect target. Thank God that the coughing giant in the corner makes the same move and saves her life.

And how does she repay him? By calling him every awful word in the dictionary.

Thank you, Tourette’s.

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What starts as a high adrenaline, high stress hostage situation in the Walgreens all because of a fever and the flu, only fuels a new fire between Hastings and Sammy.

When Hastings leaves for a month in Alaska, it only forces Sammy to realize that he may be more interested in her than he thought. When he doesn’t hear from her though, he takes this to mean that she wants nothing to do with him.

As Hastings returns home from Alaska, with a little surprise of her own, she finds a very upset Sammy. After the text message she got before leaving for Alaska to leave him alone, Hastings has no idea where this sudden anger about her leaving and not talking to him comes from.

I’m not going to lie – I struggled to stay focused on this one. I love LLV and have read 99% of her books and devoured them, but this one took a little more work to focus. I completely acknowledge that it may just be me. Bring on Mr. October!

Lani Lynn Vale is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, to cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple meaning over twenty) chickens. She hails from the Great State of Texas.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.