Ethan Sullivan is a contract killer, and he's good at his work. But killing for a living makes for a complicated existence, and it's wearing on him. He's decided to turn in his garrote and try to build a normal life. Whatever that means.

Honey Foster is a small-town girl, and happy with it. Even if all the men her age are married, and the dating pool is more like a puddle, and the only lover she's had in the last several months requires batteries, she loves her life. She has her friends, her community, and her big, goofy dog to keep her warm at night. And that's enough, at least until Ethan comes along.

He's hot and funny, and the air fairly crackles with sexual tension whenever they're in the same room. But even though she knows he feels it too, he seems to go out of his way to get out of her way as quickly as possible. Because Ethan has resolved to stay uninvolved—after all, retired killers don't get picket fences and happily ever afters.

Do they?

He's trying to keep his distance, but he doesn't realize in a town this small, he's going to see her everywhere. Backyard barbeque? She's there. Local tavern for a drink on Saturday night? She's there. Pretty soon all that resolve dissolves, and suddenly that picket fence starts to feel like it's in reach. But when the shadows of his past come calling, he'll have to expose his secrets to deal with the danger. And Honey will have to decide if love is enough, and if a flawed, complicated man is worthy of redemption.

Honey and the Hitman is a romantic suspense with lots of laughs, heaps of sexy times, a goofy dog and a happily ever after. CW for some violence, deception, and off the page parental death. No cheating, no clifhangers.