Sins Of The Saint

"You think I came back to play your savior, Clara? Look at these hands. I ruin everything I touch."
"Then ruin me."

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SHE WAS THE SUNSHINE HE WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO KEEP.

With paint-stained fingers, honey-hazel eyes, and a heart too stubborn to let Fallon Harbor rot, Clara Hensley has spent seven years rebuilding her life. But when St. Jude Arts Center faces foreclosure, she storms down to the docks to confront District 4's ruthless new owner-only to come face-to-face with a ghost.

HE WAS THE MONSTER THE HARBOR FEARED-AND HER FIRST LOVE.

Standing at six-foot-three with ink-black hair, scarred knuckles, and slate-green eyes that have forgotten how to feel, Damian Vance is no longer the ragged boy who used to wipe her tears on her front porch. He is the enforcer ruling Fallon Harbor's underworld with an iron fist. A living nightmare who took the fall for a bloody secret seven years ago and swore he would stay in the shadows to keep her clean.

He wants her to hate him.

He treats her with cold words and shut steel doors.

Until someone else dares to lay a hand on her.

When dangerous debts pull Clara into an underground crossfire, Damian's icy control shatters into pieces. Because the Saint might have a black soul...but he will burn every inch of Fallon Harbor to ash before he lets another man touch what belongs to him.

~225,796 words