Rules for the Summer

I keep my family’s name alive by control. In my world, favors are weapons, silence has a price, and one wrong move can turn a man’s legacy into ash. I do not chase trouble. I end it. Then Elena Russo walks into La Rosa with flour on her dress, fire in her eyes, and the kind of courage that gets people killed. She wants answers about her father. She wants her bakery back. She wants the Moretti family to stop choking the life out of Saint Rosalia’s. I should send her away. Do I? No. Because the baker’s daughter is stubborn, sharp tongued, and far too brave for a woman standing in the middle of a war she does not understand. And because when she looks at me like I am the enemy, I start wanting to become something worse. Her shield. Her danger. Her mistake. Maybe all three. ELENA I came home to save my father’s bakery. That was the plan. Repair the walls. Clear the debts. Reopen Saint Rosalia’s before the city condemned it and the whole neighborhood forgot my father was ever anything but a scandal. Then someone painted a warning across my boards. Thieves don’t get second chances. My father was not a thief. I know it. I just have to prove it. The problem is Dante Moretti. He is powerful, dangerous, impossible to read, and tied to the family that helped destroy my father’s name. He says I need protection. I say I need the truth. He says I should stay away from trouble. I say trouble already knows my address. And when his ring lands on my finger as part of a fake engagement meant to keep me safe, I start to wonder which rule will break first. Do not trust him. Do not want him. Do not fall for the one man who could ruin me completely. Rules for the Summer: A Beach Town Love Story About the One Rule They Were Never Meant to Break - I is the first book in a seductive romantic suspense series filled with fake engagement tension, family secrets, dangerous attraction, forced proximity, sharp banter, summer heat, and a heroine determined to clear her father’s name before everything she loves is lost. If you love possessive heroes, strong heroines, fake engagement romance, enemies to lovers heat, touch her and die energy, family secrets, small town tension, bakery settings, dangerous men, protective obsession, and page turning romance with mystery and desire, Elena and Dante’s story will pull you straight into Saint Rosalia’s. This is book one of the Rules for the Summer series and is best read in order. Keywords: fake engagement romance, enemies to lovers romance, romantic suspense, mafia romance, possessive hero, strong heroine romance, touch her and die, protective hero, forced proximity romance, bakery romance, summer romance, small town romance, beach town romance, family secrets romance, spicy romance, steamy romance, forbidden desire, dangerous hero, alpha hero romance, morally gray hero, powerful man romance, page turner romance, romantic mystery, love and secrets, emotional romance, desire and betrayal, fake fiance romance, contemporary romance, slow burn romance, passionate romance, wounded heroine, dark protector romance, bad boy romance, second chance family legacy, suspenseful romance, revenge and desire, dangerous attraction, secret past romance, protective alpha hero, romantic thriller, crime family romance, powerful heroine, forbidden lovers, love story, romance series If you love these authors, you’ll enjoy this series: Meghan Quinn, T.L. Swan, J.T. Geissinger, Ana Huang, Lucy Score, Elizabeth O’Roark, Melanie Harlow, Marni Mann, Monica Murphy, K. Bromberg, Claire Kingsley, Louise Bay, Sara Cate, Olivia Hayle, Max Monroe, Laurelin Paige, Lisa Renee Jones, Skye Warren, Willow Winters, Lauren Blakely, Penelope Sky, Michelle Heard, Eva Winners, Rina Kent, Natasha Knight, Sophie Lark, Cora Reilly, Neva Altaj, and Meghan March.