Kirjahaku

Geoffrey de Graville is a man of honor. The code of chivalry to which he subscribes demands it. He is expected to become a warrior, and to produce the next generation of his family with a suitable wife. He possesses lands, wealth, a title and good looks, but when he falls in love with the wrong woman, a woman he cannot marry, her death in childbirth leaves his soul crushed.. His honor refuses to allow him to marry another or to risk seeing another woman die bearing his child. He safeguards his heart with a layer of ice as thick and as strong as the walls of the castle built by his father. Nothing can penetrate that icy barrier around his heart, and nobody can get close enough to him to invade his defenses. But even the thickest layer of ice can be melted.

When Eric Hanson left the Navy, he knew the transition to civilian life would have its challenges. Finding work in the field he loved was easy. Finding a place to live in the small town of Avalon on California's Santa Catalina Island proved to be more difficult. When the only person in town that he knew, an angry young woman he'd met briefly while on leave, advertised for a roommate, he was glad to move in, reminding himself that they were Just Roommates. Until they weren't. Michelle Diaz is a girl with a chip on her shoulder. Life has dealt her a crappy hand and she doesn't like it. To top it off, if she wants to keep her house, she's going to have to take on a roommate to share expenses. When an annoying sailor that she'd literally run into the year before answers her ad, she takes a chance on sharing her home with him. They were after all Just Roommates. Until they weren't.

Just when you think you have it all, it all goes Kaboom... Clay Maslowski had a happy, satisfying future ahead of him. A promising career in the United States Army, with his enlistment about to reach its expiration. He plans to sign reenlistment papers for another four year commitment, as soon as he returns from his deployment to Afghanistan. His dream of becoming an Army Ranger is about to come to fruition. A spot in RASP, the elite Ranger training school, waits for him, as soon as he returns from his deployment to Afghanistan. His high school sweetheart also waits for him back home. Their love has endured despite being apart for most of his time in the Army. Clay plans to use his combat pay and re-enlistment bonus to purchase a ring and propose, as soon as he returns from his deployment to Afghanistan. Then his world went Kaboom. Instead of returning home as a Ranger, a soldier, a complete happy man, Clay limps into his parents' house with crutches and a cane and a hideous mechanism of titanium where his left leg used to be, retreating into a world of despair and pain medication. How can he survive Kaboom?