Beat by Amity Cross

A troubled fighter. A disillusioned woman. In the ring, all bets are off. Renee "Ren" Miller was five when her Dad left to go to the shops and never came back. Left to grow up with a cancer riddled mother, things have never been easy for a teenager who had to be wise beyond her years. Then one day they lose the battle and she’s all alone. Now twenty-two, Ren reluctantly goes to find her estranged father. He owns the down and out boxing studio, Beat, and Ren finds herself drawn to the ring. She thrives on learning a new way of fighting a life that kept kicking her down…instead of struggling against the current, she kicks it right between the legs. Then one day her Dad's star fighter comes back to town. Ash Fuller is mysterious, handsome and dangerous… Everything Ren doesn't need. But he's got other ideas… …and so does she. Beat is the first book in The Beat and The Pulse, a MMA Fighter romance series set in Melbourne, Australia. Hunky bad boy fighters, illegal underground boxing, and a dangerous romance that could lead to total disaster. What’s not to love?