Before That Night: Unfinished Love Series: Caine & Addison, Book 1
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Authors: Violet Duke
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BEFORE THAT NIGHT
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Caine & Addison’s Story
(Book 1 of 2)
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The UNFINISHED LOVE Series
Four brothers
Each fighting for their second first chance at love
Years be damned
A heartfelt new series from NYT bestselling author
VIOLET DUKE
Copyright © 2016 Violet Duke
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Ebook ISBN: 1-941198-75-9
Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-941198-75-9
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BEFORE THAT NIGHT
(Unfinished Love: Caine & Addison Story, Book 1 of 2)
Before
that night
, Addison Millan had been just a college dropout secretly raising her two young siblings in a beat-up minivan she’d bought with her first semester’s tuition refund—the only money her addict mother hadn’t taken off with when she’d abandoned them nearly two years ago.
Before
that night
, Caine Spencer had been just a rough, gruff cop sent to check out the phoned-in claims of suspected child neglect involving the same woman he’d met the month prior when she’d first served him the city’s worst diner coffee...which he’d been drinking daily ever since.
Before
that night
, Addison would never have thought the man she’d been fighting hard not to fall for—her only friend in her new shadow of a life—would be in a position to rip her family apart.
Before
that night
, Caine would never have believed any woman could make him fall head over heels, let alone make him feel so damn compelled to look the other way when it came to his job.
Then that one perfect night changed everything.
BEFORE THAT NIGHT (Bk 1 of 2)
chronicles the events that take place seven years prior to
EVERY NIGHT WITHOUT YOU (Bk 2 of 2)
, Caine & Addison’s story of love, sacrifice, and the lengths one will run—and chase—when their past threatens their future.
Note: The Unfinished Love series follows four brothers, each fighting for their second first chance at love. Each of the couples have two books (duets) that take place years apart. This is Caine & Addison’s Book 1; Book 2 reunites them seven years later, and concludes their story.
The UNFINISHED LOVE Series
Four Spencer brothers.
Each fighting for their second first chance at love.
Years be damned.
A heartfelt new series from
NYT bestselling author Violet Duke.
(Caine & Addison) – Summer 2016
-- Book 1: Before That Night
-- Book 2: Every Night Without You
(Gabe & Hannah) – Fall 2016
-- Book 3: Before That Kiss
-- Book 4: Every Kiss Goodbye
(Drew & Skylar) – Winter 2016
-- Book 5: Before That Promise
-- Book 6: Every Promise Unspoken
(Max & Kennedy) – Spring 2017
-- Book 7: Before That Chance
-- Book 8: Every Chance We Lost
CHAPTER ONE
Twenty-One Months Prior
WHY HELLO, MR. LUCIFER
.
Or do you prefer Satan, with no mister? Sort of like those one-name music legends? Sorry, I’m rambling. I was going to lead with a joke, but I figure you’ve already heard the ‘you-devil-you’ thing a whole bunch already, right? Anyway, my name is Addison Milan. Age eighteen. Capricorn. Probably too much of a goodie-two-shoes to have interested your scouts for recruitment, in case you were wondering why I don’t look familiar. I just figured I should already introduce myself since I’m likely going to be seeing you one day on account of my getting ready to lie my ass off.
Okay, here we go….
Mentally, Addison crossed her fingers behind her back and dropped the first lie that was undoubtedly reserving her bus ride seat to Hades. “It’s not on my resume since it was a family thing and I didn’t get paid, but I have waitressing experience—I worked with my dad in his good friend’s diner up north every summer all through high school in exchange for our family getting to spend the whole break up in their cabin by the lakes.”