Taryn Malone is stranded, broke, and in need of help. But actually if the sexy bartender she’s been eyeing gives her a job for the night . even if he seduces her with his impossibly intense blue eyes . . . even if every fiber of her center tells her to stay with him, she can’t.

Because Taryn Malone doesn’t exist.

Jake Callaghan has been running the family’s Irish pub for years now. When he views Taryn standing out alone in the torrential rain, he will what he’s been qualified to do being a SEAL-he rescues her. It has nothing to do with her full, company curves, or her loose, golden-blonde locks, or just how she brushes against him that transmits lightning bolts through his body. It’s just the right thing to do.

Really.

But both Taryn and Jake are hiding secrets from one another. Dangerous secrets. And neither one of them knows precisely how dangerous it could be to fall in appreciate . . .

Contains mature themes.