She saved me. Now, to save her, I'll have to face my violent past.
Tony
The first male adopted by the notorious Parish family, I've always tried to do right by my vigilante sisters.But when my attempt to protect my closest sibling goes horribly wrong, I can't face my family's brutal retribution. I fake my own death and escape into the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico, I reappear as "Lazarus Graves." My sense of humor is still in tact, but not my sense of self-preservation. I take a risk that has me going under the waves for the last time, a thousand regrets soaking into my bones. Honor When I plunged into stormy waters to rescue a drowning kiteboarder, I had no idea the sexy stranger I resuscitated would bring life-changing love-and life threatening danger-crashing into my world. But the secret he uncovered about my mother's death threatens the powers that be and therefore my life. A Caribbean island affair uncovers truths that were supposed to be hidden. Now, Tony Parish must make a choice. To save the woman he's falling for he's going to need some help, to do that he'll need to face his family, and a brutal fate he lost everything to avoid. **This works is a creatively reimagined and completely rewritten version of The Cost of Honor. It is told in first person and present tense and includes additional chapters and a bonus preview for a new series. Content Warning: This book contains sexual situations between consenting adults, graphic violence, and on page exploration of character backstory that may deal with childhood trauma, including abuse and neglect.