Laramie Briscoe

I’m old enough to be her father, and a life-long confirmed bachelor, but after one night together, all that is about to change. 

Boone Wilson

Instead of building my forever with a conventional family, I’ve dedicated my life to being the best father I can to the son I had way too early in life. Now that he’s grown, I’m giving all I can to my job. I make a construction site run smoothly, and can build anything with a couple pieces of wood and my imagination.

My world is small and calm. That’s how I like it. Until Alexis Monroe barrels her way into my peaceful existence and turns my world upside down.

The Broken Falls Series

I watch her car disappear down the driveway, the dust settling in its wake like the last of my fucking hope. I'm not even sure who brought her car here this morning, but right now I hate them. It gave her a way to leave. Annabelle is gone, taking with her the possibility of what could have been, what I thought, for a short amount of time, might actually be.


When she signals at the end of the driveway, I pull out my phone and send a group text to the guys.


N: Need some company tonight. Beers on the deck after Ash is in bed?


Boone: I'll be there, we haven't had family dinner in a while.


Weston: Got a case of that IPA you like. Be there at 8.


Relief washes over me. My friends, always there when I need them. The family I chose when my own proved too distant, too caught up in their own lives to care about mine.


Chapter 205