A mother in trouble. Can he protect her long enough to earn her heart? Dante Strong grew up with far too many family secrets. After a childhood in witness protection, the heir to a substantial steel fortune took a job as a sheriff's deputy in a town where truth and justice reign. When he runs into a desperate single mother and her two young children, he can't deny his desire to help her overcome her own troubled past… and to become part of her future. Eliza James hasn't found much reason to trust her fellow man. Scared and alone, she doesn't expect the handsome lawman's kindness and she's not sure she can find the strength to trust him. After all, given her terrifying upbringing, she knows that everything comes at a price…As Eliza and Dante open up to one another, a family secret could send their romance tumbling down. Will they forge an unbreakable love, or will their deadly pasts come back to kill them?The Truth About Eliza James is the first book in the Strong Brothers trilogy of romantic suspense novels. If you like damaged heroes, broken but brave women, and sizzling chemistry, then you’ll adore Katina Gavin’s dark love story. Buy The Truth About Eliza James to solve love’s puzzle today!

    He did not plan to make a new friend. He certainly did not plan to fall in love.He resisted all of Amy’s attempts to draw him out− at the hotel, at the airport, on the airplane− giving hurried responses and burying his face in a pile of papers. It was only when the flight attendant offered coffee, and a muscle in Amy’s back twitched as she reached for it, and the cup tipped, and the hot liquid puddled in Drew’s lap that they began to talk. Earlier in the year, each had lost a spouse of over thirty years. Drew’s wife had died of a brain tumor, Amy’s husband when his small airplane nose-dived to earth, the engine at full throttle − an accident, it was ruled.They live in the same city. Both have grandchildren. They are about the same age. Consciously, or not, they both are looking to love again. But relationships do not exist in vacuums. Drew is wealthy, and Amy is middle class. Amy is “new” in town – she and her husband moved to Charleston twenty-five years ago – while Drew’s family has lived there for three centuries. Drew lives below Broad, a code word for high society, old families, power, and money. Amy’s home is across the river.Class warfare may be less violent than it was in the past, but when Drew invites Amy to the St Cecelia Ball, battle lines are drawn. In a city in which ancestry is important, the ball’s membership is passed from father to son, and only those from the oldest families attend.Family, friends, co-workers all weigh in on their relationship and choose sides. Allies are found in unexpected places. Opposition comes from among those who were thought to be friends. Though they are gone, even their spouses − through things they have done and things they have said − wield influence in the conflict that follows.Amy begins to suspect that Drew is one of them, the rich snobs who despise her, while Drew concludes that Amy neither trusts him nor cares for him. As each questions the other’s motives, their feelings for each other are tested, and Drew and Amy are challenged to consider if they truly want to fall in love again.

    But teaming up with Alexandria Bastin is a complication he didn’t expect. Nor is he prepared to collide with the dark side of Cajun culture—and his own troubled past.The frantic search leads them to a place said to hold magic, an eerie island where Alex is also working her charm on him. At one time, he’d been forced to leave her brokenhearted. And now, dangerously close to the truth, he’ll do anything to protect her from the evil that surrounds them—an evil that might hold the key to sending a little girl home.…Originally published in 2012