Unpardoned

THE TERMS

One. Nobody knows. Broken.

Two. No touching. Broken by the second night.

Three. It ends at the airport. Broken at the baggage belt.

Four, hers. He doesn't get to break one first. He broke every one.

Two years ago, the girl Lachie Dunbar was going to follow to London kissed another man on camera.

He stopped saying her name. He started collecting debts for the man who owns half of Leith. And he never stopped watching her.

Now his sister is getting married in Portugal, the quinta has one room left, and Isla Rennie is in it.

Isla let him believe the worst of her. It was the price of keeping him breathing. For two years a phone hidden in a shortbread tin has told her what he costs, and she has paid, and paid, and said nothing.

But a week of one bed and four terms is long enough to break a promise. And somebody in Edinburgh is still counting.

Things to know: dual POV, first person present. A dark second chance romance with a hero who watched her for two years and a ballerina who fights back. Forced proximity (one bed), an Edinburgh crime clan, blackmail, and a wedding in the Douro valley. Spice 5/5: explicit, consensual scenes with praise and degradation. UNPARDONED is the first half of a duet and ends on a cliffhanger. Content warnings are listed inside: stalking, blackmail, violence, kidnapping, a death on the page, panic attacks.