Showing results by narrator "Alexa Crema" in Romance

Willa Rayne’s spent her life doing what's expected of her. Now she has a great job and a house of her own, but where's the romance in her life? All of that changes when she bakes cookies for a soldier. Eben Yates has an important decision to make. Should he stay in the Army? He's been on three deployments, and he misses the States. When he finds a stray in a nearby village and discovers he can bring Hero back, the dog, and Willa, give him reasons to start a new life and come home. Eben and Willa's Internet relationship deepens. Will they find the family they both want for Christmas?

Life is hard. There’s no secret in that statement. Life. Is. Hard. Simple enough. But my life hasn’t just been hard… I’ve gotten used to it over the years - come to expect it really. So when fate hands me yet another big f--k you, I’m not even a little bit surprised. Why should I be? I mean, after everything I’ve been through, why not throw my best friend’s ex-boyfriend into the mix and see how royally I can screw this up too. It doesn’t matter that he loved her first. It doesn’t matter that he’s wrong for me in every way possible.