Guarded Dreams: A Second-chance, Military Romance by LJ Evans

He’s a grumpy Coast Guard focused on a life of service. She’s a feisty musician reaching for stardom. Nothing about them fits, and yet attraction burns when fate lands them in the same house for the summer. I had one last summer with my best friends before the Coast Guard became my life. Quiet solidarity is what I seek, not a free-spirited musician whose soul all but screams trouble. But when Ava Abrams claims my bedroom in our rental, I find it hard to resist her siren-like call. And when I catch a glimpse past her shiny bravado to the wounds her father left behind, I’m tempted to toss my five-year plan aside just to protect her. Staying at our family beach house was only a temporary stop on my way to Juilliard and country music stardom. Until broody, by-the-book Eli Wyatt demands I leave, and I become desperate to unravel him. Too bad the kiss I provoke steals my heart along with his. Too bad my father tracks me down, and I’m forced to run, leaving him and his friends to face the music. When Eli walks into the bar I’m performing at four years later, the anger in his eyes doesn’t surprise me, and yet I can’t help craving another taste of the fairytale summer we once shared. We almost destroyed each other the first time around. Will this time be any different? Read more