For Weston Brooks life is perfect. He's at the top of his game as a Pitcher for one of the best MLB teams in the country. He's also just happens to be one of  New York's most notrious bachelors. Wes lives the life every man dreams of. A different city every night, a different woman in his bed, and more money than he knows what to do with. 

But all of that comes to halt when his father has a heart attack and he must go back home. Back to the town he fought so hard to get out of, and the woman he had let slip away. 

Bathsheba "Sheba" Nightingale's father was dying and she knows that she'll have to come to terms with that. And while she's dealing with that; Russian American gentleman Roman Volkov commissions her for a project that she's never done before. Sheba's confused as to where her heart should be for the next month. Should it be with her ailing father? or to this handsome stranger?

Some gifts come from the heart...others, from some place much darker.

Emily has never wanted a man so bad until Elijah Smith. An Illinois born and bred small town bad boy who grew up just down the road from her. The only problem is, he's her childhood and high school bully. So when he comes around with flowers, muscles, and tattoos she isn't so willing to forget his torturous ways so easily.

My heart and emotions were closed off. I did not want to deal with my feelings nor did I want to develop feelings. I wanted nothing other than sex, but I secretly wanted more, but not with him. I wanted another. A man who I ran from years before only to return into my life.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.     

COMPLETED! (CHAPTER 30 & 31 UPDATED ON 4/20)

Thirty-seven-year-old Sugar Wallace used her bitter divorce as a sweet inspiration to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a trendy dessert and wine restaurant called Sugar Mama. Her friends and family want her to dive back into the dating game, but Sugar refuses to open her heart to another. Not when the man she gave her heart to for eighteen years of marriage crushed it after cheating on her with a young Instagram model. She's perfectly content with a busy life of running a successful business. Then one night, she witnesses a forty-six-year-old beaten man get pushed from a car and everything changes.