Back to Life (Reclaimed Hearts, #2)

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When Renée Mahoney’s husband is killed in a car accident, leaving her to raise their four young children alone, it takes everything she has to keep getting out of bed in the morning. Though she’s always been a strong, vibrant woman, losing Carl seems to have sucked the life out of her. A few months after his death, she turns her back on her friends, her church, and her job and slips into a dangerous downward spiral.

Local police officer Joel Jarewski has known Renée since childhood and fell in love with her long before Carl Mahoney swept her off her feet. When he sees the former wild child at a bar a few months after Carl’s death, he knows she’s just looking for a way to escape her pain, but despite his better judgment, he can’t resist a taste of his dream woman when it’s offered.

Joel atones for his sins by introducing Renée to a much healthier means of dealing with her emotional pain: kickboxing. Watching her train, grow stronger every day, and regain her former self-confidence should be its own reward, but Joel wants more. And patience is not his strong suit.

Whipping her body into shape clears the fog in Renée’s head and helps give her a new lease on life. But she’s confused about her feelings for Joel, who has always been brooding, self-contained, and passionate - a man so different from the sweet, tender, steadfast husband she lost. While her attraction to Joel is undeniable, she doesn’t think that her heart will ever be whole again for another man - and she’s sure that no man will ever take the place of Carl, especially not a man with a dangerous job and a questionable relationship history.

Can the man who’s never settled down take on a ready-made family? And can the woman who swore she’d never give her heart away again find happiness with the person she least expected to love?