Quiet does not equal weak…

Departing a dependable job to apprentice being a tattoo artist was a drastic step after surviving breast cancer, but Cassie Whiteaker is nearly five years cancer-free. Nearly. She’s not ready to go from her very own until she clears that all-important hurdle. Also off-limits are relationships and sex-something Cassie is sure she’ll under no circumstances want again.

Struggling tattoo shop owner MJ Flores doesn’t give a damn what people think, but losing Thorn & Thistle means shedding about New Ink on Life everything. When her previous mentor’s protégé finds her door, MJ hires her out of responsibility…at 1st. Cross-stitching goody-goodies aren’t her type, but Cassie’s business history might just get the shop back again on solid footing. They strike a bargain: Cassie will enact fresh marketing plans and MJ will instruct her to discover her internal bitch.

Only once clients request to see Cassie-having learned of the stunning, compassionate tattoos she creates for survivors and their families-does MJ realize almost all Cassie has endured. So that as Cassie’s fears fade, she discovers it harder to keep her admiration on her behalf bad-girl manager from reawakening all she’d feared was lost.

This book is approximately 82,000 words

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