Van: My friends claim I’m commitment-phobic and my sisters keep trying to set me up, but trust me, I don’t need their help on the dating front. I’m a successful business owner of a Tampa deep sea fishing charter business and that’s all that really matters to me.

But then Clarissa, my older sister’s gorgeous best friend, waltzes back into my life and I’m turned back into the eighteen year old kid she rejected all over again. Not cool. But also, things are going to be 100% different this time around. Or they will be, once I can break through the barriers she’s put up around her heart.

Clarissa: Nick wasn’t supposed to die, but that’s what happens to heroes sometimes. I can’t even begin to describe the devastation that wreaked on my life. Three years later and I’m holding it together, taking Nick Jr. to soccer practice, dating wealthy city council member Ronald, and trying to avoid anything that will destabilize my precarious existence.

Getting let go in a corporate merger wasn’t in the plans. Neither was getting hired on by my best friend’s charming, disgustingly attractive, ex-Navy Seal younger brother, the guy I put in his place fourteen years ago. I can’t afford to be distracted by his intense, smoldering eyes or that knowing grin. I can’t. I won’t. No matter how much I might want it otherwise.

Yearning to Love Again is a sweet romance about love after loss, about second chances, and a younger guy falling for an older woman. If you like rugged, complex men who are struggling to find the right path, women tackling the challenges of life with fierce determination despite their fears, and friends who deeply rely on each other for support and laughs, the Operation: Seal My Heart series is for you!