He Said Never

Confirmed bachelor Gavin Wenham meets his match in Cardello’s sassy second Lost Corisis romance (after He Said Always). Trust doesn’t come easy for Gavin, so a night of passion is all he’s prepared to offer any woman. Riley Ragsdale isn’t looking for casual sex, but she’s unnerved by the secrets she’s keeping from her mother about her contact with her father’s side of the family and has no more room for deception in her life, so she appreciates Gavin’s blunt honesty about what he can offer, even if she has no plans to take him up on it. But when Gavin’s father threatens to exile him from the family business, Wenham Global, if he doesn’t get married, Gavin needs someone to take home to his family. They agree to help each other out with their respective parents while remaining just friends—but Riley’s loving nature and Gavin’s hard-won loyalty lead them to breach all the boundaries they set. Riley and Gavin’s slow-burning love is fueled by deep conversations and lots of chemistry but complicated by family drama. It would be easy for Riley’s vast, tangled extended family—who tie in with Cardello’s Corisi Billionaires series—to spawn confusion, but Cardello does a good job keeping things straight. Readers will root for this mature, open-minded, and fun-loving couple. (Oct.)