Small town Last stand series

The Deputy’s Secret Double (#2) // Harlequin Intrigue
Released: May 2025

With violence erupting in his town…
A deputy can’t afford mistakes.

Deputy Price Collins has no idea that JJ Shaw was the masked intruder he fought while investigating a break-in. Like his daughter, he’s taken a shine to the shy beauty. But JJ’s in Seven Roads to find the brother she never knew…and protect him from the killers who murdered their family. As violence erupts and people start getting hurt, JJ reveals her secret to Price. The lawman in him knows he should turn her in. But he’s also a man, and his feelings make protecting JJ his priority.

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Tropes + Characters

Secret Identity / Double Life / Yapper ML + Careful with her Words FL

Price Collins / Male Lead
Deputy in the town of Seven Roads, Georgia
Single father
Close with his teenaged daughter, Winnie
Career local of Seven Roads
Town favorite
Loves to yap and always knows town gossip
Town verdict: He’s one of us.

JJ Shaw / Female Lead
New part-time barista in Seven Roads
To the town she’s just looking for a slower pace of life
To us we know she’s pretending to be someone she’s not
Extremely smart, skilled, and suspicious of everyone
Loves to make moves in secret
Orphaned as a child but raised by her godfather
Town verdict: She’s so cute and quiet!

Special Secondary Characters
Winnie, Price’s teenaged daughter
Rose, a deputy in the town of Seven Roads, Georgia

Corrie, the queen of Seven Roads gossip
The unknown brother, the reason JJ is in town

the deputy’s secret double tease

READ THE SERIES IN ORDER!

#1 Search for the Truth
#2 The Deputy’s Secret Double
#3 TBA
#4 TBA