The Return (SURRENDER #1)

"I can make you so much happier than he ever could. I can stir your desires, feed your passions, satisfy your hunger. I can make you mine."

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Gabrielle de la Roche has just graduated from the prestigious Harvard University when she returns to Monterey, the small coastal town she grew up.
After four years, Caleb Moreno hasn't changed a bit. The local womanizer of Monterey works at the local garage and is still the indomitable rake who lives in the flat he once shared with his best friend.
Gabrielle knows Caleb's reputation like the back of her hand and yet she can't avoid him. Caleb knows Gabrielle's opinion of him well enough and yet he can't resist challenging her. The two of them are drawn to each other like magnets that continue to struggle despite everything. Everything speeds up when Gabrielle's future suddenly appears on her doorstep and she is forced to choose.

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"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." - Pablo Neruda