If It Isn't Love

Honey Jones has enough on her plate.

A demanding job. A ten-year-old son who deserves more from his father. Bills that always seem to have the audacity to be due. And a heart she learned a long time ago not to hand over too easily.

Love is not on the agenda.

Then Dante St. Thomas catches her before she takes a very public tumble at her son’s basketball game.

He’s fine, quiet, confident, and just mysterious enough for Honey to know she should probably leave him alone.

She doesn’t.

After a year away from Houston, Dante only planned to come home long enough to handle unfinished business. But home means the St. Thomas family, and being a St. Thomas comes with money, loyalty, violence, and secrets Dante has spent a year trying to outrun.

Honey is the last complication he needs.

She also becomes the first thing in a long time that feels real.

What starts as an unexpected connection slowly turns into something neither of them planned. But Honey has fought too hard for her peace to give her heart to a man who won’t give her the whole truth, and Dante knows the truth about the life he comes from could cost him the woman he’s falling for.

Because in Houston, love doesn’t exist in a bubble.

Family gets involved. Old debts come due. Friendships get messy. Secrets travel. And sometimes the people you love are carrying truths that can change everything.

If It Isn’t Love is a raw, funny, emotional slow-burn romance about flawed people trying to love each other while real life keeps getting in the way.

Because love might be beautiful.

But what does love look like when real, flawed people get their hands on it?

Book One of the If Love Universe.