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Keep Watch: A Small Town Single Mom Military Romance
She called the cops on him. Now he's the only one standing between her and the man who won't let her go.
Laney Brooks has moved six times in six years. She backs her car in so she can leave fast, keeps a chair under the back door, and never unpacks the last box. Her ex doesn't want their son. He just wants her running, and he always finds her.
The new town has a diner, a landlord who doesn't ask questions, and a neighbor who sits on his porch all night watching her door.
Silas Kincaid is six and a half feet of quiet. Medically retired Army, a leg full of titanium, and two elderly cats he'd walk through fire for. He isn't watching Laney because someone sent him. He's watching because a car keeps idling at the end of their dead-end street with its lights off, and he knows exactly what that means.
So she reports him to the sheriff.
Then her ex walks into the diner, puts his hand on her wrist, and the big man at the end of the counter says three words that change "She's with me."
Now they have a deal. Fake it in public, where her ex's people can see. Rules on a napkin. No sleepovers. No feelings. Kissing only if tactically necessary.
The rules don't survive the parking lot.
Touch her, and you answer to him.
KEEP WATCH is a steamy, slow-burn standalone with a guaranteed happily ever
Enemies to loversFake datingForced proximityProtective, morally gray hero who falls firstCurvy single mom heroineTouch her and dieFound family in a small mountain townNo cheating. No cliffhanger. The boy is safe. The animals are safe. Intended for readers 18+; full content notes are in the back of the book.
Laney Brooks has moved six times in six years. She backs her car in so she can leave fast, keeps a chair under the back door, and never unpacks the last box. Her ex doesn't want their son. He just wants her running, and he always finds her.
The new town has a diner, a landlord who doesn't ask questions, and a neighbor who sits on his porch all night watching her door.
Silas Kincaid is six and a half feet of quiet. Medically retired Army, a leg full of titanium, and two elderly cats he'd walk through fire for. He isn't watching Laney because someone sent him. He's watching because a car keeps idling at the end of their dead-end street with its lights off, and he knows exactly what that means.
So she reports him to the sheriff.
Then her ex walks into the diner, puts his hand on her wrist, and the big man at the end of the counter says three words that change "She's with me."
Now they have a deal. Fake it in public, where her ex's people can see. Rules on a napkin. No sleepovers. No feelings. Kissing only if tactically necessary.
The rules don't survive the parking lot.
Touch her, and you answer to him.
KEEP WATCH is a steamy, slow-burn standalone with a guaranteed happily ever
Enemies to loversFake datingForced proximityProtective, morally gray hero who falls firstCurvy single mom heroineTouch her and dieFound family in a small mountain townNo cheating. No cliffhanger. The boy is safe. The animals are safe. Intended for readers 18+; full content notes are in the back of the book.
372 pages, Paperback
Published October 2, 2026
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