When it does Joe is forced to face the knowledge that he can't fight Violet's pull, she's under his skin and filled him full to bursting.Joe needs to win her back and put his life on the line to keep Violet safe. But Violet's husband's murderer is obsessed with her and heartbreak again haunts the door of the Winters home. In December 2022, she'll publish the second in her Wild West MC series, SMOKE AND STEEL, the love story of Hellen and Core. With nothing left to give, Joe's determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet's heart.Crushed by Joe's betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter what signals he gave, Joe was not theirs to win. Kristen recently released GOSSAMER IN THE DARKNESS, a novella with 1,001 Dark Nights based in Kristen's Fantasyland universe, as well as MAKING THE MATCH, the fourth in her River Rain series, the story of Tom and Mika. But Violet doesn't know the dark secrets in Joe's past, secrets so soul-wrenching, they've drained him dry. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi's hunger, breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.Even though Violet had only one man in her life, she's sure Joe is giving her the signals and Vi decides she's ready to take a second chance at life and, maybe, love. Fighting the Pull: A River Rain Novel by Kristen Ashley Paperback 23.99 Paperback 23.99 eBook 5.

And that's when she meets sinister, scarred, scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan.She wants to deny it, but Violet can't beat back the hunger she feels for Joe so she gives in again and again. During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her neighbor to turn the music down.

Violet Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal madman.

Fighting the Pull by Kristen Ashley