Hideaway Whirlwind by May Alder

A woman in need of hiding.

I thought my kids and I would be safe once we escaped the cult’s compound in the desert and started a new life in Las Vegas, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Four years later, the stakes are even higher, and I need another escape plan. Knowing I might not see the light of another day if I’m discovered, I risk everything to call an ex-coworker who had already left Nevada for a better life: “Did you mean it? Can you get us out?”
When she promises to send her friend, a long-haul truck driver on route nearby, to safely smuggle us out of state, all I have to do is pack and wait, hoping I’ll find the freedom I’ve been searching for since I was ten years old. In twelve hours, my kids and I will be safe and hidden away. My hand drifts to my lower stomach. And so will this one.

A trucker sent to help her.

I’m on my last long-haul job before my worsening eyesight takes me off the road for good when I get a call, asking for a favor: smuggle a woman and her kids out of Nevada. It’s supposed to be a two-day trip, and at the end, I’m to drop them off at a mutual friend’s house. Except when a massive storm system sweeps the lower half of the country, the trip takes twice as long. It’s both a blessing and a curse that when we eventually make it to Texas, the freak-freeze causes the state’s power grid to fail, and I have to take them home to my cabin.
The more time I spend with them, playing house as we wait for the power to be restored, the clearer it becomes that our small town’s infamous whirlwind has sunk its talons into me. How am I supposed to let her and the kids go when the storm passes? When we already feel like a family? When the dangers she left behind in Las Vegas follow her all the way to her new home?

Put simply, I can’t.
Because the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
And I’m the biggest, most dangerous of them all.

Hideaway Whirlwind is the 4th book in the Big Boys of Berenson Trucking series but can be read as a standalone. Hideaway Whirlwind is a full-length, spicy, age-gap romance. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book before proceeding. Happily ever after guaranteed.