Just This Once: Men of Porth Luck, Book 1

Mal is a man haunted by the ghosts of combat, drifting through life with no intention of planting roots. He views himself as a temporary fixture in a world that has already taken too much from him. But his plans for a hollow, transient existence hit a wall when he arrives in Porth Luck and crosses paths with Skylar. Skylar is the town’s dedicated nurse, a man who spends his days mending the broken pieces of everyone around him, all while carefully shielding his own vulnerabilities behind a wall of professional calm. Despite their differences, the connection between the hardened soldier and the guarded caregiver is immediate and magnetic. It is an entanglement that neither man invited, yet both find impossible to resist. Driven by a desperate need to find solace, they enter into a pact built on the fragile promise of just one encounter. What begins as an attempt to quiet the noise in their heads quickly evolves into a collision of two bruised souls. As the lines between an easy fling and a profound, life-altering bond blur, Mal and Skylar must decide if they are brave enough to risk their hearts for a love that promises to finally heal the wounds they’ve both tried so hard to hide.