Marked Universe: Pinehaven

A church-going chef. A tattooed mechanic every mother in town warns her daughter about. One reckless night. One very bad reputation.

Maria Moralez has never broken curfew. Never missed Sunday Mass. Never done a single reckless thing in her life.

Until she does all three in one night.

Fresh out of culinary school, Maria spends her days running the...

She’s the woman everyone depends on.

The one who remembers, fixes, organizes, helps, and somehow ends up holding everything together while everyone else gets to have a life.

He’s the man Pinehaven decided would never amount to anything.

Now he’s back...with money, ambition, a motorcycle, and every intention of making the same town that dismissed...

Pinehaven thinks it knows everything about her.

The men. The mouth. The bad decisions. The fact that she plans to leave town the first chance she gets.

She’s spent years making sure that version of the story is entertaining enough that nobody bothers looking any closer.

Then one man does.

He’s respectable where she’s scandalous, patient where...