Repelling the Shark

Simple and easy falls apart when secrets revealed require making promises and opening up to the possibilities of hurt and hope.Leo Bailey has so far escaped the curse of the date shark business. He fills in when needed, but has held onto his casual relationships and family emergency-free existence. hoverMarriage and family are a vague idea for the future, but he's not ready to give up the freedom of being single and answering only to himself.When Piper Moretti witnesses the demise of yet another of Leo's friends-with-benefits relationship, she doesn't think much of it. She has a long list of more pressing responsibilities and headaches to occupy her mind.Friends, and the strings that go with them, are at the bottom of her priority list.When a date shark client who tops the list of bizarre behavior Leo has seen, his half-joking request for rescue drags Piper into the chaos and into Leo's life.Neither one wants more than a simple, no-stress friendship. Secrets and surprises force them to admit neither one is nearly as in control of their futures as they think they are.Helping each other means getting involved, making promises, and opening themselves up to the hurt and hope they're both terrified to face. DelSheree Gladden was one of those shy, quiet kids who spent more time reading than talking. She didn't speak a single word for the first few months of preschool. Her fascination with reading led to many hours spent in the library and bookstores, and eventually to writing. She wrote her first novel when she was sixteen years old, but spent ten years rewriting before it was published.Native to New Mexico, DelSheree and her family spent several years in Colorado before returning to northern New Mexico. When not writing novels, you can find DelSheree reading, hiking, sewing, playing with her dogs, and working with other authors.DelSheree has several bestselling young adult series and has hit the USA Today Bestseller list twice as part of box sets. DelSheree also has contemporary romance, cozy mystery, and paranormal new adult series. Her writing is as varied as her reading interests. Every love story is unique, and that's no truer than in The Date Shark Series where a group of friends from medical school all struggle to find their way through life and relationships.Eli Walsh battles a traumatic past when he meets Leila Sparro and must chose between love and obsession.Guy Saint Laurent has never aspired to marriage and family, until he makes an unlikely friend who needs his help but is reluctant to accept it.Vance Sullivan's effort to help a troubled client gets side-railed when his own life completely falls apart and that same client is the only one who can get through to him amid his grief.Sabine Saint Laurent's life has always been rather perfect and fairly effortless, until a surprise changes not only her career path but her entire life plan.