More than First Love: Wixby River Farms Book One

Cara Hargrave has worked too hard for too long to let Edward Whittaker ruin her night.She's a prima ballerina in Charleston, living her dream, building her life — and the last thing she needs is to look out from the wings and see the boy who broke her heart sitting in the front row with the Hart family like he belongs there. Six years ago he drove her away from Wixby River Farms with cruel words she never quite forgot. She's over it. She's over him.She is absolutely over him.Edward came to Charleston to land a contract for his orchard.

He did not come to fall back in love. But the moment Cara steps onto that stage he knows, with the kind of certainty that makes a man's chest ache, that he never stopped. He hurt her on purpose once — convinced himself it was the right thing, that she deserved her dreams more than she deserved him. Earning her back is going to take a lot more than a front row seat.What neither of them knows is that the Hart family — Charleston's wealthiest, most polished, most dangerous secret — has had its eyes on Cara for a long time.

Her best friend and college roommate Nora has been smiling at her for years while harboring feelings she's never once let show. Nora's younger brother's admiration crossed a very dark line long ago. And their father knows exactly what his children are capable of.He's not interested in trying to stop them.Cara has no idea that the life she's built is sitting on a fault line. Good thing the man who never stopped loving her just walked back into it — and this time, he isn't going anywhere.More than First Love is the first book in the Wixby River Farms series, set in the same world as the beloved Baxley Bakery series though it stands beautifully on its own.

Southern, steamy, and laced with danger. Contains spicy scenes, coarse language, stalking, kidnapping, and violence. Recommended for readers 18+.