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Desperate Haste is a reformed playboy X reformed playgirl, hot and spicy romance story. Malcolm Kacee has had his eye on Ophelia Sommers ever since his best friend's engagement. Being Charleston's biggest playboy, he's struck by just how much he feels pulled to her after their heated one night stand and just how far his desire for her goes--even if she wants nothing to do with him. Ophelia confidently owns who she is as a sexy, confident businesswoman and refuses to let any man tie her down or call her his. But over time and through one of their toughest seasons, these two come together and learn that you can always start over and find love no matter how hard you’ve fallen in the past.
Book THREE of the Nat. 20 Series | releasing SPRING 2025
Desperate Haste
What starts out as a desperate haste to share just one night together becomes a love neither of them expected. Together they learn that you can always start over and find love no matter how hard you’ve fallen in the past.
A First Look into Desperate Haste
Malcolm Kacee is Charleston’s biggest playboy. Known for his inked up skin and the fact that he would rather have a woman fall in love with him for only a weekend instead of forever, he’s perfectly content in his arrangement with the opposite gender. One and done, nothing more.
Ophelia Sommers loves sex and isn’t afraid to own it. If men are allowed to take a different girl home each weekend and be seen as ‘the man’, then why can’t women? She loves who she is as a curvy, successful businesswoman and for reasons she rarely shares, refuses to let any man claim her as his own.
That is, until the night of his best friend’s wedding when he finally gets the girl he’s been trying to bag for weeks—the bride’s best friend. After their hasty one night stand, he can’t seem to shake her from his mind. For the first time in his life, he’s ready to call her his for good, even if it means burning his entire playboy image to the ground.
Yet, why can’t she stop thinking about the tattooed bartender that took her home after her best friend’s wedding? And why does she find his thick-framed glasses and the fact that he reads the newspaper every day so annoyingly hot? And why, even in his darkest season, does she want to do anything she can to pull him back into the light?
Chapters to skip for closed door modifications
(may miss some plot)
Content Warnings
On-page drug use, addiction, recovery, premarital abuse (physical and verbal), alcohol abuse and addiction, death/loss/grief, physical and verbal aggression, parental/family strain, mentions of past traumas to side characters including but not limited to: rape, assault, parental abuse and abandonment, racism
Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 8, Chapter 12, Chapter 15, Chapter 17
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- 1 'BUTCHER&BLOCK' table coaster
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- Art by @KaylaJamesAuthor
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- Material: Matte Vinyl
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malcolm and ophelia couple sticker
This 'Dead inside but still horny' shirt is a 100% cotton blend, short-sleeved, unisex cut and is only available in black.
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'dead inside but still horny' tee
