One More Heartbeat: single father friends to lovers small town romance (The Carson Brothers)

""*One More Heartbeat* is an emotional rollercoaster that had me hooked from page one. Zara and Garrett’s story is EVERYTHING a small-town romance should be.""-- The Next Chapters Finding a toddler on my doorstep? Not exactly how I planned for the day to go. Zara Thompson has loved sexy ex-Marine Garrett Carson since college—but he was in love with her best friend. For the past twelve years Zara has kept her secret and her heart guarded. Then a woman shows up on Garrett’s doorstep with a toddler and a shocking claim: the little girl is his daughter and her mother—Zara’s former best friend—is dead killed in a tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now Garrett is juggling fatherhood a looming book deadline a frightened toddler who won’t go near him and a live-in nanny who refuses to warm up to Zara—especially after she witnesses an unexpected and steamy kiss between Zara and Garrett. A steamy kiss that sen