Unwritten Rules

He’s the player she can’t resist. She’s the one rule he can’t break.

I wasn’t supposed to fall for you.

When I accepted my father’s proposal to move out of Barrenridge to work for him as the North Sydney Wolves’ physiotherapist, I thought it would be my get out of jail free card after losing my previous job. What I didn’t expect was to come face to face with the man I had a one-night stand with the night before I left town.

I was never meant to see Sinnett Baxter again. It was only meant to be a night of fun-something I wouldn’t normally do. And now here I am tending to his injury, doing my best to adhere to my father’s ＂no dating anyone from the team＂ rule. Goddamn is it hard though when I can’t get this man out of my head.

＂It’s impossible to keep my hands off you, strawberry.＂

I thought dealing with my overbearing father was difficult, but it turns out staying away from the coach’s daughter is ten times harder. What started as a visit to Barrenridge to help my twin sister move in with our grandmother turned into a night I can’t seem to forget-no matter how hard I try.

Tatum Collins was supposed to stay in the back of my mind with the rest of the faceless hookups from my past. Now here she is helping with my injury, fuelling the obsession seeping through my veins. And the worst part is, if her father knew the thoughts I was having about his daughter, I would be six feet under.

Sinnett has his future and career mapped out down to the minute. Now that Tatum has entered the picture, is he willing to break the rules to get what his heart wants, even if it ruins his carefully laid-out plans?

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The Sunburnt Hearts series follows a group of high school graduates from Barrenridge-a small, one-way in, one-way out town three hours west of Sydney-six years after finishing school. Some have returned to the small town, some are only just escaping for bigger and better things. One thing is for sure, despite being a typical farming community with an old goldmine, the town harbours more than just dust and secrets. Beneath its quiet surface simmers long-forgotten feuds, forbidden love and the kind of heartbreak that never truly heals.

The series follows the lives of a sports physio who gets a job with an NRL team, a Supercars driver, an NBA basketballer, an artist, the police chief’s daughter, and a DV survivor running from her past.

The titles in this series are: Unwritten Rules, Prove Me Wrong, Twisted Truths, Beautiful Ruins, No Strings, and Off Limits. Each book can be read as a stand-alone, but you will find cameos from characters within each of the stories.