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The Unwilling Love
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.99
Publisher: Gabe Habels Publishing
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Romy
I inherited my father's food truck, his debt, and his habit of drowning in silence. The bay took him when I was twelve. I've been treading water ever since.
Then my best friend's older brother walks into a bar, and I forget how to breathe.
Cillian Kael is a former Navy rescue swimmer with ghosts in his eyes and a scar on his cheekbone that makes me want to trace it with my tongue. One night. One kiss. One promise he can't keep.
He walks away.
Four years later, I'm scraping eggs off a diner grill, raising my niece, and lying to myself that I've forgotten him. Then an interview invite arrives: Pastry Chef, Kael Lodge.
I didn't know he owned it. I didn't know he'd be the one hiring me.
Until I walk into his kitchen.
Cillian
I pull drowning people out of the water. I don't pull them into my life.
Romy Velez is my little sister's best friend, a walking storm in a torn flannel shirt, and the only woman who's ever looked at me like I'm not a monster. I kissed her once. Then I ran.
Because I have nightmares. Because I wake up swinging. Because the last woman who stayed over ended up with my hands around her throat.
Now she's standing in my kitchen, wearing my chef's coat, and I can't look away.
I tell myself it's just a job. I tell myself I can be professional. I tell myself I won't touch her.
I'm a terrible liar.
The Unwilling Love: A Debt of Skin is a full-length contemporary romance with a damaged hero, a fierce heroine, and a second-chance, best friend's brother, forced proximity, workplace romance. No cheating. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
He walked away to protect her. Now she's working for him. And the only thing more dangerous than the storm outside is the heat between them
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