Modern wallflower and French teacher Trace is ready to let her frizzy red hair downโliterally. To not keep wearing the happy face that can fool everyone in the small town of Foothills, Washington.
Everyone except her former foster brother.
Mercenary, antihero, Cole has spent the last decade running. Wounded after an op gone wrong, he comes home, and the meet-cute isnโt so cute, when she bashes him on the head with the bathroom door by accident. After his shower. And laughs.
He probably shouldnโt tell her heโs not only had a crush on her since they were in high school, but that he used the idea of her to survive.ย
Carrie Thorne is the author of romance sizzling with magmatic chemistry, healthy relationships, and a mix of action and dreamy days falling deliciously in love. Whether itโs a sinuous flow down a lazy river or evil bad dudes hot on heels, Carrieโs stories will draw you in and ruin your sleep. Carrie writes genuine and compelling characters, knows that happily ever afters are for everyone, kindness is everything, and she cannot resist a zinging romance.
Sheโs also an introvert who loves people, travel, fitness, and food, and is a true Pacific Northwesterner who lives for rain and outdoors and trees and mountains and ocean, andโฆ sheโs a total dork. At home, sheโs lucky to have two creative and confident kids, a witty veteran husband sheโs pretty dang fond of, and at the time of writing this, a snuggly puppy at her side. In addition to writing romance, Carrie is a nurse practitioner, and has been a geologist on Mars and on Earth, a banker, and has had many other odd jobs over the years. So, when Carrie gets a little nerdy, feminist, health-minded, or a little dreamy, youโll know why.
Where is she now? Depends on the weather. Cozied up by the fire with a steaming mug of black coffee, or stretched out on the hammock with a frothy IPA in the shade of her forest. Either way, sheโs working on the next great love story to conquer your TBR list.ย