Caleb Clark has a job to do and no one is going to stop him from protecting two women from the paparazzi that are hounding them. The one woman is Carly, the woman who was photographed with singing star Jamie Callahan, and Callahan's sister Ellen who happens to also be Carly's neighbor.

Ellen Callahan has finally gotten her life together. She had been pushed aside while their mother catered to Jamie's talent and career, and her ex-husband had been an alcoholic, womanizer that she allowed to be too controlling. He wouldn't even stop calling her Els even though she had told him a million times she hated it. Now standing in front of her is someone else who wanted to take control of her life... her home ... and she wasn't going to put up with it. Though the more she sees of the macho, handsome devil, who is hired by her brothers security people, the more attracted she is. But there is no way she is going to lose the hard won independence she has made for herself and her son Henry.

All he's asking is for Ellen to allow him to put up motion lights, get some better locks on her doors and windows and let him put up a temporary fence. He isn't asking her to spend her life with him or anything ... but the more time he spends with the sexy infuriating woman the more that idea has merit. It doesn't take long for him to want forever but getting Ellen to believe in forever again and not just a few nights of the hottest sex he has ever had is not going to be easy.

Making his plans harder are his parents and their apartment complex, a sister who finally admits what her troubles are, and Ellen's idiot ex. The real clinker is when the singer finally realizes how much he loves Carly and returns to do whatever it takes to win her back and in the process bringing back a bigger influx of paparazzi.

ALONG CAME TROUBLE is a different kind of contemporary romance. Author Ruthie Knox gives her characters realism with flaws and the normal ebb and flow of life while still burning the pages with steamy sex. Readers will laugh at the antics of little Henry and Carly's Nana and listen to the good advice of Caleb's father and feel as if these are people they already know. I can't wait to get my hands on more from this author.

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