The Hometown Heartbreaker (Valentine Bay: Lockhart Ranch Book 1)

A second chance, reformed playboy, first love, small town romance

Sadie Rose Shepard was supposed to leave Valentine Bay in her rearview mirror.

Unfortunately, nobody told her grandfather. Or her ex. Or her traitorous libido.

When a family emergency sends Sadie racing back to the tiny Oregon town she escaped years ago, she has exactly three goals:
· Take care of her grandpa.
· Stay out of the town gossip mill.
· And avoid Dawson Lockhart—the cowboy-shaped reason she left in the first place.

That last one lasts approximately five minutes because this is Valentine Bay, filled with meddling families who won’t take no for an answer.

Seeing Dawson again confirms her greatest fear, that despite years of telling herself otherwise, she wasn’t over her first love, her biggest heartbreak, and unfortunately, the boy who broke her heart has turned into a six-foot-something rancher with rough hands, worn jeans, smoldering hazel eyes, and enough swagger to make Sadie reconsider several perfectly reasonable life choices.

Including sanity.

And maybe pants.

Dawson Lockhart never thought Sadie would come home.

He’s spent years telling himself letting her go was the right thing to do, so that's exactly what he did. There was just one problem with his brilliant plan.

He never stopped loving her.

Now Sadie is back with her big-city attitude, smart mouth, and the same smile that has haunted him for years.

Staying away from her should be easy.

Except this is Valentine Bay—a town where privacy is an insult, neighbors treat gossip like an Olympic event, and, apparently best friend’s think it’s okay to ask out your ex.

Jealousy has Dawson showing up on her doorstep. Sadie forgets why she hates him. And one extremely bad decision involving his mouth proves their chemistry didn’t disappear with time.

It got hotter.

Now old feelings are turning into new kisses, Sadie’s temporary trip home is becoming dangerously complicated, and Dawson is starting to wonder if he can convince the woman he once let go to stay.

But Sadie still doesn’t know the whole truth about why Dawson broke her heart. And when it finally comes out, their second chance could be over before it really begins. Because Sadie thinks Dawson was the hometown heartbreaker who chose Valentine Bay over her.

She has no idea letting her leave nearly destroyed him.

And this time?

Dawson isn’t sure he can survive watching the only woman he’s ever loved walk away twice.

The Hometown Heartbreaker is a spicy, laugh-out-loud small-town second-chance romance featuring first loves, a rugged rancher who never got over her, a city girl who definitely got over him (she’s lying), meddling family, shameless town gossip, forced proximity, scorching chemistry, buried secrets, and years of delicious unresolved tension.