Wilde Men

Hudson Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision, and I'll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea. As builders, we plan to renovate and flip the town, maybe turn it into something worth seeing, but the longer we're here, the more things feel … off. It's not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde's End isn't as abandoned as we were told. But there's nothing waiting for me in the life I left behind, and in making his demands, Wilde has accidentally tapped into my competitive side. Terrible decisions? Me? Wilde can bring it on. Wilde I escaped to Wilde's End twenty years ago, and since then I've dedicated my life to the town and the people who live there. Because if I focus on others, I don't have the time or energy to face everything I've been running from. The Bellamy brothers coming to town is like three horsemen of the goddamn apocalypse. They leave destruction in their wake, and when the eldest, Hudson, ignores my very kind request to leave, it's time to take things into my own hands. Protecting this town is all I know how to do. But I've never faced someone like Hudson. His stubbornness matches mine, and his attitude has an irritating way of worming under my skin. The more I push him, the harder he pushes back, until we're locked in a game neither of us will walk away from. With his smart mouth, bullheaded recklessness and those damn eyelashes I'm starting to question whether I can win this one. But if I lose, this town isn't the only thing on the line.

Kennedy I've always been the relationship guy. I love big, hard and fast … but unfortunately for me, that's the quickest way to make a new romance crash and burn. Moving to Wilde's End, our not-so-abandoned town, is exactly the fresh start I need. What's better than a town in the middle of nowhere and long days of hard work to swear off relationships? At least that's what I think, until I meet Ziggy. He's the town electrician who has a weird habit of making sparks fly whenever I'm around him. He's cute, snarky, and his piercings are hot as hell. Too bad I don't trust myself not to make the same mistakes I always do. Ziggy I've always been the weird loner. The strange kid who doesn't talk. So when Kennedy shows up in my life, with his big energy and sunny personality, I don't know how to take him. I'm used to being the invisible shadow that goes unnoticed in the Wilde. Kennedy makes me feel seen. He doesn't expect me to talk when the voices in my head get too loud, he doesn't expect me to be funny or witty or anything that I'm not. He's happy just to be around me, and that's not something I've experienced before. He's sworn off dating. And I've never so much as been kissed. But with the sunshine he brings to my life, it's impossible to feel like a shadow anymore. I'm determined to win him over, no matter what it takes.