Deep in the hills of West Virginia, three small towns have found a way to flourish in the face of extreme poverty. Disciple runs a side-show tent revival that brings in millions of dollars a year. Bishop flaunts traditional ways in the vein of Colonial Williamsburg, luring weary city people to the slow-living lifestyle. And Revenant offers them an experience of sin filled with tattooed bikers and live-music dive bars.

It’s a sacred trinity that worships the almighty dollar and everyone plays their role like a well-trained Broadway actor.

But these hills have secrets, and so do the people.

Twelve years ago, when he was just eighteen and dreaming of a future with his high school sweetheart, Collin Creed learned something about himself. Something so disturbing he left Disciple to join the Marines and didn’t once look back. But all that came to a screeching halt with the congressional hearings, forcing Collin to return home and rebuild his black-ops empire brick by brick.

Lowyn McBride’s heart broke when Collin shut her out and left town without an explanation just as they were getting ready to start their adult lives together. The death of her mother the following year was a make-or-break moment and Lowyn rose to the occasion, giving up her university education to parent her younger sister while building an empire of her own as a specialty antiques dealer.

Anger and desire, guilt and shame—the return of the enigmatic Collin Creed ignites the town and sparks an explosion of emotions inside Lowyn. But he’s not the only one with a secret in his past.

Lowyn has always played the good girl to Collin’s bad-boy reputation. But it turns out—she’s just like everyone else up in these hills—not as wholesome and pure as she looks.

The Rumble and the Glory is a cinematic and spicy small-town secret, second-chance romance wrapped up in a cloak of mystery and suspense. It honors the themes of found family, redemptive anti-hero, and is filled with bigger-than-life, morally-grey characters against a backdrop of deceit and deception.

INSIDE THE PAGES YOU WILL FIND:
Spicy Soulmate Connections
Touch Her and Die Scenarios
Small Towns with Big Secrets
Opposites Attracting
Second Chances
Childhood Sweethearts
Morally Grey Situations
A Bonded Found Family
Charming Alpha Heroes
Ambitious and Brave Leading Ladies
Wild and Wonderful Settings
The Perfect Level of Danger & Suspense
And a whole cast of characters that will immediately wriggle their way into your heart.

But during a freak March blizzard, I save a drop-dead gorgeous cellist from freezing in her snowbound SUV. Thanks and a hero’s pat on the back (or better yet, some grateful kisses) are in order. Instead, the deliciously curvy, frustratingly uptight classical musician declares me a creep, a dimwit, and a thief. To top it off, the Gold County Sheriff and FBI launch a multi-county search for Alex, convinced she’s been kidnapped. Their number one suspect? Me.

I’ve got a $600,000 cello in my living room, a gorgeous virtuoso heating up my bed, and dark, tangled desires twisting me in knots. There’s no denying the sizzling sparks flying between Alex and me—in danger of setting my cabin and heart aflame. As the snow melts, more than my reputation and freedom are on the line, and I wonder if I’ll ever let the woman I saved leave me…