Dark Endures (Sweet Atonement, #2)

Is it wrong to fall for a guy’s pet before you fall for him?
Mindy
Life’s hard, and that’s just the way it is. So, I’m going to party even harder and pretend for a little while that the world isn’t collapsing in around me. My first job doesn’t pay enough to cover my bills. With a second job walking dogs in the evenings, I just about skimp by. That is, until my landlord decides to up the rent. There’s not enough time in the day for a third job. And there certainly isn’t time for me to moon over the guy I ran into at the best bakery in the world. It’s not that he’s the living embodiment of dangerously sexy. Or that his watch is probably worth more than everything I own. Not to mention he owns the coolest piebald snake that I’ve ever seen. It’s the fact that he’s got ‘player’ written all over that flirty face of his.

Maddox
There’s a rat in my gang who seems to have forgotten that rats get fed to the snakes lining the walls of my office. Finding the rat should be my focus. Except a woman walked into my neighborhood, and now she’s all I can think about. It doesn’t help that she knew I was carrying a piebald python around my neck, and instead of passing out or screaming, like most women do, she fawned over it. This isn’t the time to allow myself to be distracted or let weakness pull me away from the task at hand. There are way too many souls who rely on me to be cold, cynical, and ruthless when it comes to protecting Willow Street. This place is more than just a neighborhood. It’s my mission in life. Only Mindy makes me forget about everything but her.
Any kind of relationship with Mindy could put her life at risk. That’s something I’m not willing to even consider.

Dark Endures is a no spice dark suspenseful romance, featuring steamy kisses with a decided lack of cursing and violence.