Summary The series follows Laurel and Eva, both individuals with secrets and complicated pasts, meeting in as ordinary a manner as any other couple might. Over the course of this story, as their relationship develops, the couple is faced with challenges they must overcome on their own. Laurel is facing the future and navigating the troublesome circumstances affecting the city’s changing power structure to ensure the survival of his organization and protecting his responsibilities and the philanthropic duty he took on himself as a youth who perhaps had more intention than insight. Eva is facing her past and attempting to break free from the difficulties of her childhood to become an adult who can finally live a happy life full of love and fulfillment out from under the shadow that her mother cast over her life. The emphasis so clearly placed on detailed character creation lets each and every character feel like an individual, living a life and telling a story entirely their own within the umbrella of the encompassing plot. Since this is a series, books are best when read in order so you can follow the characters and storyline. Book 1 Laurel Dean Harley is a donut packer with a secret. Anyone who knows him would understand how incredibly out of place his chosen career is. However, Laurel has far more pride in his work than one would imagine. To him packing donuts is more than a job; it’s the representation of a dream, one he has chased since he was but a child living on the streets of London with his best friend. That’s why when a girl shows up who disrespects the order Laurel has come to enjoy in his life, he’s not having any of it. In his anger, he makes a small mistake that will end up changing the lives of both him and the girl, a university student named Eva, in ways neither of them has any way of predicting.