Family Bonds: Alana & Brennan

They’ve both been betrayed by love. Neither expects a second chance but the heart has other plans.

Alana Nadar is always the friend, never the leading lady. Kind, dependable, and easy to overlook, she’s learned to live in the shadows of other people’s happiness. So when she volunteers to babysit her handsome coworker’s daughter so he can go on a date—with someone else—she tells herself it doesn’t hurt. After all, Brennan Austin has never looked at her that way… even if she’s been quietly falling for him for months.

Brennan thought he had life figured out until betrayal blindsided him and left him picking up the pieces for himself and his daughter. With the holidays approaching, he retreats to Amore Island, hoping to give his little girl the magic of Christmas while quietly nursing his own wounds. He certainly isn’t expecting the warm, funny coworker who shows up and bonds effortlessly with his daughter or the stirrings of something he thought he’d buried long ago.

But when ghosts of their past relationships come knocking, old wounds threaten to reopen. Can two hearts, bruised by betrayal, find the courage to trust again and discover that sometimes love shows up when you least expect it?