The Grumpy Lifeguard

A Sweet Enemies-to-Lovers Small-Town Romance

The small town, an artist's colony on the South California shore, knows him as Mister Formidable.

Trace Richardson guards the beach .At twenty-four, he commands his stretch of sand.

The car accident happened when he was eight. The titanium rod in his leg reminds him every day. The scars run deeper.

He's gruff. He's professional. He protects what's his.

The rest don't know about the billion dollars waiting for him at thirty. They don't know that he must pay his own way until he is thirty, and he likes it that way.

Dr. Sarah Blake arrives from New York City. Harvard. Marine biology research. Independent. Driven. She studies seals. She doesn't know small towns. She doesn't know his rules.

She gets too close to a mother seal and pup. The mother attacks dangerously. Trace saves Sarah. The town watches. The enemies are made.

But the attraction is thick enough to cut with a knife.

Then she is horrified at his secret and takes a job in Washington DC.

Will he abandon a billion dollars and follow her? Can he win her back? We'll see.