She fell deep, but he refused to be loved by someone like her.

DEEP

Jesse Shaw desires change. That’s what happens when she is confronted with the wife of her long time boyfriend, and boss. Humiliated, Jesse and her two best friends take off for their last girls only summer fishing trip, but this time her best friends will be returning without her. That’s right, Jesse has decided to take up residence in the vacation town of Remington, where her family has vacationed for years. The beach, fishing, sun, and a new teaching job is just what she needs. What she doesn’t need is the rugged Charter boat Captain Mason Burns making her wish she could trust her instincts again.

If he’s not paying for college for one brother, thanks to his tight understanding of numbers, he’s bailing the other one out of the local jail, thanks to all the liquor that flows freely on Cruz Island, Island life. It was always Mason’s first love as a child. Until his father ruined it and Mason had to take control. In order to support his mother and brothers, Mason had to make quick decisions that may never allow him to have what he never knew he needed. Her.

Karis and Ty’s Story

BAGGAGE

Karis Hill returns to Florida to take care of a family that never took care of her. Her dwindling savings account confirms the need to move her family back to North Carolina so she can continue to pay off the stack of medical bills and for the ice hockey her teenage niece loves. With her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis moving may not be the answer, but neither is letting Ty Firestone continue to support her family.

Having an abusive father did nothing to hinder Ty’s need to take care of the people he loves. Even when they push him away. When Karis walks into his ice hockey rink, he is determined to find out why she gave up on them eleven years ago. Her anger towards him for remaining in her life behind the scenes is something she will just have to get over. He is not letting her go again. He’s lost too many people to let that happen.

Distracted

Ryan has only one thing on his mind, until he’s stuck living in a rundown house with his fake trophy girlfriend– Hockey Royalty Farrell Eaves. His plan was flawless. Ryan would no longer be in the shadow of his two older brothers. He would create his own legacy beyond the neglect he tolerated and the abuse he watch his older brothers endure. No more. He’d get the girl, the house, the trophy. He’d win it all. Prove them all wrong. Using his laser focus and deep meditated love for all things Oprah, Ryan Firestone made the best of being traded back to his old team, and being knocked to second place for the one trophy neither of his brother’s ever obtained. It was his for the taking until she moved in with him. Flipping his world upside down.

Farrell’s inviting life and her will to take care of others proves she’s more than people her family included think she is.