Conflict by Kylie Hillman

He’s damaged. She’s scared.
If they can make it past their conflict, they might have just found the one.

Amy Parker-Nguyen.
As a twenty-eight-year-old widow with one son, she’s determined to stay emotionally unavailable. Love is great until it ends; leaving you forever bereaved, and your outlook on life bleak and barren. After patching up her heart, she’s happy to be known as the hard-assed, single mum and occasional good time, party girl.

Nate Harvie.
Being a twenty-two-year-old, MMA fighter has its perks. His days are filled with never-ending rotation of free booze, good drugs, and easy girls. Life is good. Well, it was until the night he broke his cardinal rule and let Amy get too close. Now, he wants things he shouldn’t—things he can’t have unless he tells the truth.

What should be a brief encounter that scratches a mutual itch grows into so much more before either of them realises. Amy becomes worried about Nate’s worsening behaviour and, before she knows it, she’s facing a choice—stick around and help him or return to the safety of the lonely life she was previously sinking under?

NOTE: While this story follows on from Brawl and contains characters from that story, it is a standalone that can be read without reading the previous book.