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Heartbeat

Book One of the Courageous Love Series

Maya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet.

Then someone tried to kill her. Now, she has a new goal: stay alive. New town. New identity. No men. A decent, three-step plan to give her a fighting chance, until a run-in with a local detective with haunted green eyes leaves her vulnerable in more ways than one.

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Terreece crafted a beautiful, heartbreaking and funny story about survival, second chances, and unexpected, but much appreciated, found family.

JL Seegars | Author Restore Me

High stakes on both the suspense and the romance and the author left not one single part of the plot unanswered. And the way it was written was sublime. I am so impressed with this author.

Tosha @bigbuttandabook | Amazon.com

To say this sweeping story is amazing would be an understatement.

-CLorraine Kibler | GoodReads.com

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Heartbeat

A deeply emotional story of love in extraordinary circumstances, developing the courage to be vulnerable after devastating life events, and the ruthlessness of one man's obsession. Maya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her.

Now, she has a new goal: stay alive.

New town. New identity. No men. A decent, three-step plan to give her a fighting chance, until a run-in with a local detective with haunted green eyes leaves her vulnerable in more ways than one.

Mike Sheppard left his hometown in the Colorado mountains a bruised, broken kid vowing never to return. Yet here he is 20 years later, paying dues for the dead. He's built a life protecting the vulnerable, and as the town's newest detective, he's determined to restore trust and honor to a department recovering from decades of corruption.

Truth. Transparency. Dedication to the law. A decent, three-step plan to give him and the town a fighting chance, until a run-in with a suspected drunk driver with the devil on her heels leaves him wanting more.

Neither are ready for this, but is anyone ever ready for the kind of love that stops your heart?

Spicy scenes, laugh-out-loud moments, suspense, danger, and epic love makes this romantic suspense novel a great read for romance readers who couldn't put down Tiffany Patterson's The Townsends of Williamsport or Penny Reid's Winston Brothers series ...

This grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angsty, multicultural contemporary romantic suspense novel marks the debut of bestselling author Terreece M. Clarke in the romance genre.

Trigger Warnings

  • Instances or discussion of abortion drug use, sexual abuse, partner violence, human trafficking, police, fatfobia, and family loss related to terminal illness.

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2023 It's Lit Award

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“Nationwide coverage my ass.”


Maya checked her brand-new smartphone one more time. Siri was still “thinking” about her location. After watching the maps app churn for a few seconds more, she threw the phone back onto the passenger seat of her deep blue pickup truck. She watched as it ricocheted off the door and bounced to the floor.

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