Life Sucks

train wrecknoun1. A chaotic or disastrous situation.2. An utter catastrophe or mess.3. A devastating calamity or source of trouble.4. Pepper O'Brien.As the daughter of a famed film producer, Pepper O'Brien is Hollywood royalty.Also, her life sucks.Because, unfortunately for her, the old adage is true: money can't buy everything-including grace, true love, or the ability to not screw up every single opportunity her life has brought her.After her latest disaster, Pepper moves across the country to start over but, as usual, her life has other plans, namely in the form of Derek Cashette, her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome friend of her older brother.Derek is determined to salvage the train wreck of her life and Pepper's determined not to let him. Her life is her problem and, dammit, why can't she be her own hero?But sometimes fate has other plans. Or maybe it's hormones. Especially when her rescuer comes with a killer smile, a chest Thor would be jealous of, and a butt that any girl just wants to-

She was supposed to just be another case. Another criminal.Instead, she stole her way into my heart.I had never met a bad guy I couldn't take down, and I wasn't about to start with Francesca Lyon.Her father ran one of the largest crime rings in the world, so while Frankie might be beautiful, smart, and driven, she wasn't a woman I could ever fall for.Still, she wasn't supposed to know about my involvement in the case, wasn't supposed to look at me like I'd shattered her heart when she found out.But I had. And she did.Then-somehow-my future became less about the job and more about closing the case on her heart.

Once upon time Shannon had been young and single and filled with hope. But then she'd gotten married and divorced and now she was single again. And older. And a mom. And barely hanging onto her house, her car, her job. Hope was a distant memory. Until Finn Stoneman knocked on her door. He was the biggest movie star in the world, the most beautiful man she'd ever laid eyes on, and…quite possibly the only man whose life might be a bigger hot mess than her own. And he wanted her… No, this couldn't go wrong at all.