Not Without Risk (24 page)

As a young girl Sarah Grimm always had a story to tell. At times they were funny,
other times scary, but they always ended with a happily-ever-after. Sarah spent years
scribbling in notebooks, filling the pages with partial chapters and the margins with
titles and story ideas. She told friends the characters spoke to her, and that she
was compelled to get their stories on paper. Eventually, she sat down at a computer
and wrote her first tale of dangerously sexy suspense.

Sarah lives in West Michigan with her husband, two sons, and three rescue dogs. Between
mom’s taxi service, her day job, and keeping the books for the family marine repair
business, Sarah can be found curled in her favorite chair, crafting her next novel.
Visit her online at h
ttp://www.sarahgrimm.com

AFTER MIDNIGHT

Can music heal the fractured soul? Or will it tear them apart forever?

Thirteen years – that’s how long Isabeau Montgomery has been living a lie. After an
automobile accident took her mother’s life, Izzy hid herself away, surviving the only
way she knew how. Now she is happy in her carefully reconstructed life. That is until
he walks through the door of her bar…

Black Phoenix singer/front man Noah Clark came to Long Island City with a goal – one
that doesn’t include an instant, electric attraction to the dark-haired beauty behind
the bar. Coaxing her into his bed won’t be easy, but he can’t get her pale, haunted
eyes nor her skill at the piano out of his head.

Can Noah help Isabeau overcome the past? Or will her need to protect her secret force
her back into hiding and destroy their chance at happiness?