More Than Lust (Courthouse Connections Book 1) by Ann Jacobs

forces them to share their fear during the EYE OF THE STORM, but it takes more than a Cat 3 hurricane for them to reveal secrets, gain mutual forgiveness, and rediscover the love that never truly died.
     

What is the Courthouse Connections series?
     
    A series of contemporary romances set in and around Florida’s Gulf Coast, Courthouse Connections began as a series about trial lawyers and law enforcement personnel whose work centered around the Hillsborough County, Florida’s thirteenth circuit courthouse. It was originally called LAWYERS IN LOVE before I got rights back and renamed it COURTHOUSE CONNECTIONS in order to expand the series to include stories that don’t include an attorney as either hero or heroine.
     
    Over the course of seven books so far, the original characters have reappeared, having their own stories in expanded settings, while I’ve added new stories and characters whose professions have expanded from law and law enforcement to medicine, physical fitness, legal practice in fields other than criminal law, and so on.
     
    I love the characters, know the setting (I’ve lived in Tampa, Florida practically all of my adult life), and have always had a keen interest in the legal system and how it works.
     
    I hope that readers will enjoy the expanded setting, new character occupations, and different story lines that I call “Extras”, where original characters will reappear while new ones are introduced. The first of these “Extras”, JAKE’S LOVE , is an Amazon exclusive and Courthouse Connections Series story #7, in case anybody’s counting.

     
    Jake’s a transplant surgeon who knows Marcy and Sam (a fertility specialist), from EYE OF THE STORM. Jake’s love is Meghan, the widowed mom of a former patient. I hope you’ll give this short novella a try—the conflict’s unusual, to say the least, but their romance provides what, for the most part, is a light, sensual read.