The first book in the Courageous Love Series is a deeply emotional story of love in extraordinary circumstances, developing the courage to be vulnerable after devastating life events, and the ruthlessness of one man's obsession.

Maya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her.

Now, she has a new goal: stay alive.

New town. New identity. No men. A decent, three-step plan to give her a fighting chance, until a run-in with a local detective with haunted green eyes leaves her vulnerable in more ways than one.

Mike Sheppard left his hometown in the Colorado mountains a bruised, broken kid vowing never to return. Yet here he is 20 years later, paying dues for the dead. He's built a life protecting the vulnerable, and as the town's newest detective, he's determined to restore trust and honor to a department recovering from decades of corruption.

Truth. Transparency. Dedication to the law. A decent, three-step plan to give him and the town a fighting chance, until a run-in with a suspected drunk driver with the devil on her heels leaves him wanting more.

Neither is ready for this, but is anyone ever ready for the kind of love that stops your heart?

Spicy scenes, laugh-out-loud moments, suspense, danger, and epic love make this romantic suspense novel a great read for romance readers who couldn't put down Tiffany Patterson's The Townsends of Williamsport and Penny Reid's Winston Brothers series.

This grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angsty, multicultural contemporary romantic suspense novel marks the debut of bestselling author Terreece M. Clarke in the romance genre.