Under His Hand

Edie Bouchard does things in order. Her school bus route, her list, her life, checked twice. Nothing on it says anything about the sawmill owner at the end of the road. What she gets is a pickup blocking her bus on the first cold morning of December, and Owen Garrity.

Loud, huge, and completely out of order, Owen tells her through the bus door that he's going to marry her and get her pregnant, not in that order. Edie tells him he's skipped a stop. Owen doesn't do stops. He does whatever he wants, wherever he's standing, and he says exactly what he wants put in her and where, and he doesn't lower his voice for anybody, and she has never once in her life been so undone by a man who can't be quiet.

"I'm not going to be gentle about this and I'm not going to be fast about it either. You're going to know every single thing I'm doing to you. I'm going to tell you."

There's a room upstairs he's kept shut for thirty years. As Owen skips every stop on her list, Edie has to decide: is she keeping the order she's lived by, or is she the one who says it first?

Possessive. Filthy. Claimed on night one. An explicit 12 Nights of Noelle Falls romance.