Protector: Clean Romantic Suspense [eBook]

Pre-Order Protector(Hawkwood Private Justice), Book #1 in this Clean Romantic Suspense series.

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She returned to Angel's Cove to heal. She had no idea what she was walking into.

Emily Tidewell is recently widowed, exhausted, and starting over. With her four-year-old daughter in tow, she returns to the small seaside town of Angel's Cove, Florida — the place she grew up, the place she left behind — looking for the kind of quiet that grief requires.

What she finds instead is Jack Hawkwood.

Jack has come back to Angel's Cove for his grandfather's funeral — and to finally face the question he has carried for ten years: did someone kill his father?

Theodore Hawkwood died on the water the summer Jack graduated high school, in a storm the sheriff ruled accidental and closed in four days.

Jack has never believed it.

Now, with his four brothers gathered and his grandfather's dying wish ringing in his ears, the investigation is finally beginning.

He doesn't expect to walk into Aunt Dotty's coffee shop and find Emily sitting at a corner table — the woman he once loved, the woman he abandoned without explanation a decade ago — with a little girl pointing at the pelican on the wall.

Some things haven't changed. Some things have changed everything.

As Jack and his brothers dig into the dark history beneath Angel's Cove's sun-soaked surface, the threads of the investigation lead somewhere unexpected: to the three founding families who have controlled this town since the 1800s...

The powerful Moores, the secretive Joneses, and the complicated Wilsons — and to a conspiracy that has been blackening the Hawkwood name ever since Captain Edward Hawkwood's ship went down on the Angel's Cove reef in the 1860s.

And to Emily's late husband Henry, who had been quietly investigating the same history before he died. And to Jack's uncle Conrad — who was in business with Henry, and who is now pressuring Emily to sign away property she doesn't understand.

The deeper Jack digs, the more certain he becomes: his father's death was no accident. And the people responsible have every reason to make sure the Hawkwoods never prove it.

Good thing Jack Hawkwood spent ten years becoming the most dangerous man in any room.

PROTECTOR — Hawkwood Private Justice, Book One. Clean romantic suspense.

Faith elements. The Florida Keys. Five brothers. One truth 150 years in the making.

Pre-Order Protector and this ebook will be delivered to your email via BookFunnel by May 30, 2027.