Ghost Me Once — K.M. Daughters

Never fall in love with a suspect... Special Agent Brooke Pellington doesn't listen to her own advice after she meets Jaxson Rosso, a prime suspect in an espionage investigation, along with his mother and stepfather. Jax is home in Luna Beach temporarily helping his mother Sofia run the café inherited from his beloved grandfather. Jax enfolds Brooke into his hometown life and as she becomes deeper and deeper involved, they both fall in love. But Jax is bewildered when Brooke ghosts him the same day the FBI arrests his mother and stepfather. When he learns of Brooke's betrayal, he swears he wants nothing more to do with her. And then Jax's mother's heart gives out under the stress, a double blow that crushes him. When Jax finally gets his life back together, Brooke fatefully reappears. Is their love meant to be? Or will she ghost him twice?