Trying Not To Love You

Hes a bad man and she knows it. But sometimes the bad ones are the hardest to resist. Penny Miller is lonely and bored. By day she works at a library; by night she mixes cocktails in a seedy neighbourhood bar. At twenty-two shes given up her dreams of college and lives with her grandmother on the miserable outskirts of the city, longing for the kind of romance she reads about in bookslove with a capital L. Then Marcus Drake moves into the apartment upstairs. Hes nothing like the charming man of Pennys dreams: hes rude, covered in tattoos, and out on parole. Hes also sexy, and very, very dangerous. Theres instant hostility between them, but when Penny has to turn to Marcus for help they come to an arrangementand soon shes struggling to keep it professional. Because with her traumatic memories and his dark past, her innocence and his passion, getting involved with Marcus might be what breaks her heart for good. See more