When I came back to New Orleans after fifteen years, I was expecting many things but not Nichola Renault…Detective Nick Renault arresting my brother for murder, the minute I set foot in my French Quarter bar, Jazz Sessions.

I'm ready to show Nick that no one messes with a Doucet, especially her, who left wounds on my soul that never healed.

But even though I want the woman responsible for the pain she caused others and me to pay for her sins, I have problems that I need to deal with first. Someone is trying to murder my sister and her new husband.

To find out who's hellbent on hurting the people I love, I have to join the family business, which I walked away from. And, instead of dealing with Nick in the way it hurts her most, I have to work with her to unravel old family secrets and current Russian mafia ties that are endangering the Doucet empire and the lives of my family.

In the heart of N'awlins where jazz and danger intertwine, my journey is a melody of passion, peril, and the haunting echoes, I realize, of a love-hate that never quite extinguished.

Set in N'awlins

Oh the angst!

Second chance romance

Enemies to lovers

No third-act breakup

MMC is a jazz musician

FMC is a police detective

Romantic suspense/thriller

Interconnected standalone series