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Baytown Heroes, Book 7
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Kale Williams
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Maryann Jordan
About this listen
They were friends.
Detective Sam Shackley had known Hayley for years. She was the wife of his best friend. But when tragedy struck, he vowed to protect her and her children. Their friendship helped them through the worst of times. But eventually, he needed to give her the space to move on if she wanted. It was the hardest thing he’d ever done.
Then they became more than friends.
Hayley realized when Sam moved away, he was the only man she wanted to be with. So, when he asked her to join him on the beautiful Eastern Shore, she and her children couldn’t wait to move there.
But a macabre discovery by the children in the back yard puts them all in danger. An old murder threatens the safety of his family. After all they’d been through, he was determined to keep them safe. So he called upon his fellow detectives to help solve an old case to ensure his family found their happily ever after.
A Baytown Boys sub-series.
The Virginia Marine Police and the North Heron Sheriff’s Department - Keeping the county and waterways of the Eastern Shore of Virginia safe, follow along as they find love. Small town romantic suspense.
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- Diane S.
- 02-11-25
I love how the story had such an amazing set of characters
I truly enjoyed this story of Sam and Haley, how Sam was so loving and as they both grieved for his best friend and she her husband, how he kept his promise to take care of each of them. Hope who never got to meet her daddy and E#die who was only a toddler.
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