Cover of Cross My Heart: A Country Music Star Small Town Romance

Cross My Heart: A Country Music Star Small Town Romance

Susanne Ash

Love on Palmar Island #7

contemporary romance(58)

A washed-up country star and a widowed neighbour clash — until he needs her voice to save his career.

Content Warnings
griefdeath of loved oneaddiction

Description

A washed-up country star has one last shot at reviving his career - and one last chance to find the love and family he always wanted.Hunter Madison is down on his luck and wallowing in it. If there’s one thing he knows, it was how to throw a pity party for himself, complete with loud music and rowdy friends. He drows his sorrow and numbs his pain until a much needed intervention makes it clear he can’t keep doing what he’s been doing for years. He’s on the verge of losing it all ...Stella Wilson is holding on by a threat. Since her husband’s unexpected death, she raised her girls by herself. Life hasn’t been easy the past few years, but she takes solace in watching her daughters grow and thrive. Until a country music star moves in next door and keeps them up, night after night. Out of desperation, she calls the police.Neither one expects what happens next. Hunter needs her to create the album that’s his last shot at reviving his career and makes her an offer she can’t refuse. If he can pull it off, he might have it all, including the love of a good family and the family he’s always wanted. But it means revisiting and finally dealing with old wounds. And convincing Stella he’s the kind of man she wants in her life.Cross My Heart is a clean contemporary beach romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers, and part of the Love On Palmar Island series.

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