Violated

Treasure Mabry did twenty-two months for a man who swore he'd hold her down. He didn't put one dollar on her books.

Now she's five months on paper, booked out for weeks at Lashed by Treasure, and running late to meet her new parole officer in a lime-green two-piece. She figures she'll flirt her way through it like she flirts her way through everything. Then six-foot-four of no-nonsense calls her name, writes her up at 10:44, and doesn't round.

Booker Vance has never broken a rule in his life. Not in eleven foster homes. Not in the Marines. Not in all his years holding a pen that can send a woman back to prison. But somebody in his own office is erasing check-ins and stamping warrants, and the loudest, smartest, most aggravating woman on his caseload just walked in with a parking stub that proves it. Protecting her could cost him his badge. Wanting her could cost him everything else.

Veronica "Ronnie" Pettaway is the most hated woman on the Westside, and she knows she earned it. Seven years ago, she said too much to the wrong man in the wrong bed. The cop she gave Cash to still has her name on a paper, her number in a burner phone, and his eyes on her son.

Darnell "Dutch" Ferrell did twelve years. He sleeps on the floor. He doesn't talk, doesn't trust, and doesn't forgive, especially not the woman who sent his best friend away. But Cash asked him to keep her breathing, and a man who taught you to read only has to ask once.

Somebody is getting paid for every body that goes back. Everybody's doing time for something.

When the rules are rigged and the price is your freedom, who are you willing to break them for?

If you love forbidden parole officer romance, grumpy/sunshine, BBW heroines, age gaps, enemies to lovers, a damaged hero who sleeps on the floor, and steamy, unapologetic Black love, Violated is your next binge. Book 2 in the Doing Time For Love series.