Title: Protecting What's Mine: A Small Town Love Story
Author: Lucy Score
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 16, 2020


If you can’t stand the heat, don’t fall for a firefighter… Fire Chief Lincoln Reed is known for his heroics in the fire department and in the bedroom. Life is a never-ending good time. Until she lands in the middle of the accident scene he’s working…and then his backyard. Too bad she’s immune to flirty first responders. Flight trauma surgeon Mackenzie O’Neil is on a crash course with burnout. She’s got a scar on her face and a shake in her hands. A temporary job as a small-town family physician is just the prescription. She’ll learn to meditate. Sleep more. Take up gardening. She definitely won’t take her shirtless, firefighting neighbor’s hot body for a test drive. But Linc and his tattoos are very persuasive. What’s a harmless little adrenaline-fueled fling between neighbors? It’s all naked fun and games until the shadows from Mack’s past find their way into her present. Can Linc be her hero when she needs him the most or will their scars ruin everything? One thing is certain: Someone is going to get burned. Author’s Warning: This small-town happily ever after is smokin’ hot, sweetly hilarious, deliciously suspenseful, and a one-two punch to the feels. One-click for a disaster dog, precocious kids, a good ol’ fistfight, nosy neighbors, high-adrenaline first responder heroics, firefighter bromance, and kitchen sexytimes.






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Everything about this book stole my heart! Score has such a gift for bringing words alive so you feel like you've been untethered from the minutia of life and transported into a world where the welcoming small town is quirky, unique and charming, the characters are as real as your family and best of friends, and you’re an integral part of all the events playing out in living color. 

As if all of that isn’t enough to make a great story, this one starts off with a bang and then continues to build the intensity. Fire chief Lincoln Reed is driving back to Benevolence, MD, and comes upon a multi-vehicle accident before any other first responders. He struggles to save victims, yet he can’t help but notice the new part-time medi-vac doc, Mackenzie ‘Mack' O'Neil. Once Linc is in the emergency department getting his own wounds treated and Mack stops in to check on him, he lets the staff know she's not only family, but she's his future wife. Big words coming from a guy known in town as a player. Besides, Mack came to Benevolence to recover from the burnout of her military career by spending most of her on-duty time in a small family practice, she doesn’t do serious, and she's only there for six months. 

Linc is far more than he seems, truly caring for those in his community, great with kids, and dedicated to his job of helping people and saving lives. In everything he does, more and more of his big heart and compassionate spirit are shown. Mack is a terrific surgeon, but she has a lot to learn about small towns. It isn’t long before she begins to understand that friends and neighbor are their own kind of family and small-town doctors become entwined in their patients’ lives outside of office hours. She learns that it's healthy to sever blood ties when that blood is bad and the caring people in her life would never judge her for a past she had no control over. 

Linc and Mack have a lot in common and really are perfect together. They're both highly motivated and intelligent, which doesn’t stop them from making mistakes and needing a few figurative smacks upside the head, and their friends are happy to provide those when appropriate. The tension between them is delicious, their road to forever is hilarious, heartfelt and riveting, and watching them fall is the best kind of entertainment. With gifted writing that lures you in and consumes your soul, this phenomenal, enchanting story will grip you in its suspense, keep you laughing out loud, and leave your heart with a satisfied smile.

 Get your copy using the below links, and scroll down for teasers and how to connect with the author. Until next time, dear reader 

Much love between the covers,

BookAddict

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Lucy Score is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Small town contemporary rom-coms are her lady jam and she enjoys delivering the feels with a huge side of happily ever after.
Her books have been translated into several languages, making readers around the world snort laugh, swoon, and sob. Lucy lives in Pennsylvania with the devastatingly handsome Mr. Lucy and their horrible cat.
In her spare time she enjoys sleeping, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and reading all the romance novels in the universe.
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