Newly divorced mother, Luana Douglas and her daughter, Leilani, are looking for a better life after divorce. Working two jobs to make ends meet, dating is the last thing on her mind. Her roommate has other plans for her. While she's working for a car company moving and driving cars off the pier once the stevedores finish unloading them from the ships, she meets the next in line to the stevedore company.

Thirty-five-year-old Kainoa Makakoa, just starting to get over the death of his fiance, works for his father as a stevedore at the Makakoa Bros Stevedore Company in Oahu Hawaii.

A mystery of who, how & why cars are being stolen with drugs involved not only thrusts them together but forces them to face the pains of their past so they can move toward their future, but will it be them--together? Find out in this second chance love, romantic suspense, HEA.

Scent of Vanilla & Old Spice, Bk 1 in the 'Scent of' series. Gracelyn Olivia Reid is in her second loveless marriage, married to a man who cheats, drinks, lies, gambles too much, & likes to watch porn on the internet. With a child addicted to drugs, she wonders where she went wrong in her life. Can she save her daughter, Shelby, from a life drugs and get her on a path to wanting life versus the alternative if she doesn't get clean before the police catch up with her and put her in jail?

Meet Eli Nash, a man Grace knew from her childhood because he was her brother's best friend, who comes back into her life as her next door neighbor. His father, who has Lewy Body Dementia, lives with him, but is that life destined to be destroyed from past mistakes made by both father and son?

Does Grace and Eli get a second chance at love with each other, or destined to stay single to deal with their own family problems? Or do they face them together and get to live a happily ever after life?