Used Book – What does the past matter..., Kay Stockham, Françoise Rigal

When she hired him to help her renovate her house, Ashley quickly understood that Joe Brody was not well-liked in Taylorsville. But she didn't ask questions, letting the gossips whisper behind his back, and preferring to trust what she saw – a secretive, even mysterious man, but skilled with his hands. However, as time went on, the tension between them grew. A tension made of shared desire and silences. For while Ashley, passionately in love, felt an increasingly strong need to gain Joe's trust, he inexplicably refused to go further and commit...