Grace Kendall knows what it’s like to have life knock you on your butt. She’s been through hell and made it back. She’s fine with trusting no one and expecting nothing until a night wind blows something quite unexpected onto her doorstep in the rain. The scruffy, yet gorgeous enigma known as Nathan Henley steps inside her apartment and brings with him all those feelings Grace has tried so hard to tuck safely away. Beneath his bruised and damaged exterior, she senses all the dark and beautiful secrets lost within the tarnished diamond of his lonely heart. She resists his mystery as long as she can, but she knows that any woman would gladly throw themselves against his rock hard chest and shatter helplessly into a million lustful pieces. When Grace finally decides to trust again, her ex-boyfriend Jack returns to her life with his crooked grin and the past comes crashing down. With the world spinning all around her, Grace must do more than trust, she must fight for the salvation of her own lonely heart. *New Adult, Contemporary Romance. Standalone. No Cliffhanger.* Books in the EVERLASTING SERIES (interconnected, stand-alone books): NATE (Prequel) BEAUTIFUL RUIN MAGNIFICENT RUIN JESSE'S GIRL SAVING GRACE Keywords: new adult, romantic suspense, bad boy, alpha male, friends to lovers, everlasting series, male model, romance suspense, steamy romance, contemporary, mob, mafia, secrets, Tomas Keller, Nate, urban, holidays, Christmas, Thanksgiving,