His Wild Rose

"I'm done letting you run from me."

After dancing around each other for years, two guarded hearts dropped their walls and what should have been the beginning of something new, ended in an empty bed-and no note.

Months later, Alicia Peterson is struggling to maintain two jobs and the unpredictable behavior of the teenage sister she's been raising for the last nine years. She's determined to push the memories of that night with Ro out of her mind, which should be easy now that he's a professional soccer player traveling the country.

But the nights he comes back to O'Nelly's Pub to play music with his fellow Irishmen? Torture.

Rowan Gallagher has loved football since growing up in the slums of Galway, Ireland. An alcoholic father, and two rowdy little brothers, forced him to find an outlet for his anger in the form of kicking a ball around the pitch. Now that he plays professionally? Life should feel complete but he finds himself longing for the trips back to Wilmington.

He spent years fighting off his feelings for Alicia, but now she's all he can think about. He's dead set on making her realize that he's done fighting with her.

Now he's fighting for her.