Guarded Dreams

He's a grumpy Coast Guard focused on his 5-year plan. She's a feisty musician reaching for stardom. Nothing about them fits, and yet attraction burns when fate lands them in the same house for the summer. I had one last summer with my best friends before the Coast Guard became my life. Quiet solidarity is what I seek, not a free-spirited musician whose soul all but screams trouble. But when Ava Abrams claims my bedroom in our beach rental, I find it hard to resist her siren-like call. And when I catch a glimpse past her shiny bravado to the wounds her father left behind, I'm tempted to toss my five-year plan aside just to protect her. Staying at our family beach house was only a temporary stop on my way to Juilliard and country music stardom. Until broody, by-the-book Eli Wyatt demands I leave, and I become desperate to unravel him. Too bad the kiss I provoke steals my heart along with his. Too bad my father tracks me down, and I'm forced to run, leaving Eli and his friends to face the music. When Eli walks into the bar I'm performing at four years later, the anger in his eyes doesn't surprise me, and yet I can't help craving another taste of the fairytale summer we once shared. We almost destroyed each other the first time around. Will this time be any different? "Just like the moon calls the tides, she has called me home. To her." Inspired by Luke Bryan's "Sunrise, Sunburn Sunset," comes a slow-burning, beach read about dreams lost and remade with vibrant characters, beautiful friendships, and found families. Interconnected, standalone seriesCan be read in any order Award-winning author LJ Evans lives in Northern California with her husband, child, and the three terrors called cats. She's written compulsively since she was a little girl, often getting derailed from what she should be doing by a song lyric that sends her scrambling to jot a scene down. A former first-grade teacher, she now spends her days deep in the pages of romance and mystery with a bit of the otherworldly thrown in. Her favorite characters are those who live resiliently-stubbornly and triumphantly getting through this wild ride called life with hope, love, and found families guiding the way. Her novels have won multiple industry awards, including Charming and the Cherry Blossom, which was Writer's Digest's Self-Published E-book Romance of the Year.