The Safeguarded Heart Series

Young real estate entrepreneur Serafina Evans chances her guarded heart to be with a handsome and charming Italian client, but things take a turn when she finds out her company is being sabotaged and her paramour isn't what he seems. Will her gamble on a mercurial relationship pay off, or will it leave her hurt and closed off from love forever? And will she find out who's sabotaging her in time to save the company she's worked so hard to build?

From award-winning and international best-selling author Melanie A. Smith comes the second book in a series of steamy contemporary romantic suspense novels. The time has come to decide: it's all or nothing... Fresh off a series of life-changing events, real estate mogul Serafina Evans has decided to pursue the man she loves - the stubborn, intelligent, charming, and devastatingly handsome Alessandro Giordano. And while Alessandro is finally free of the ties that bound him, that revelation was followed by his insistence that he must return to his home country of Italy.

Just when Serafina Evans seems to have figured out how to make the relationships in her life work, the loose ends she knew might come back to haunt her threaten to unravel it all. But if she's learned anything from her hardships, it's how to let the people who care about her in, to trust them, and lean on them to ride out the storm. Until fate deals a hand that changes everything.

Emily Hoyt is often referred to as a "free spirit", but she knows that's just a nice way to say "flake". She doesn't normally let it bother her. But when her perfect big brother unexpectedly announces he's gotten married, Emily, once again, feels the pressure to be more than the meandering musician she is.