Just One Taste

He’s an Army veteran combat medic-turned-chef with a past full of ghosts. She’s the very off-limits colonel’s daughter—A.K.A, his best friend’s little sister—who just became his accidental roommate at their family lake house in Pine Mountain.


Jesse Oliver can handle being flooded out of his apartment. After all, he’s lived worse places than his car. But when his Army buddy offers him temporary refuge in his family’s fixer-upper cabin, Jesse jumps at the chance. A month of part-time manual labor seems a small price to pay for rent, and anyway, the hard work will help keep his thoughts in line and out of the past.

Then Kat McMarrin shows up with her suitcase, and forget keeping his thoughts in line. All his brain—and the rest of him—wants to do is focus on her sharp wit and gorgeous, easy smile. But Kat isn’t just his buddy’s little sister, she’s a colonel’s daughter, and very off limits to a guy like Jesse. Plus, they’re teaming up to renovate the lake house and after that, she’s gone. He needs to keep his head down and his hands to himself.

Except their home improvement projects very quickly turn from sawdust to sizzle, and now Jesse’s more worried about his heart than his hands. But can something so forbidden go from a fixer-upper to forever?


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Just One Taste is an updated version of the Pine Mountain novella that was originally published in 2015. This edition has been updated and edited for readability and added steam.