Mercenary's Conquest

Mia has just graduated with straight A's and is spending the summer behind the counter of her father's diner. Gage, the new deputy chief, is twenty-six, built like a wall and an ex-mercenary who has been shot, stabbed and run over. He is raising his teenage sister and he doesn't ask permission. He drives Mia home because it's bear season, tells her he's taking her swimming on Saturday and warns her how pushy he gets when he sees something he likes. Her father has a shotgun. Gage doesn't care.