Bad to be noble
(Book)

For glass artist Ashton Weller, Longboat Key seems like the perfect place to start over. It's warm, sunny, and far from the dangerous ex he left behind in Chicago, even if his glass studio does get even more uncomfortable in the Florida heat. It's also home to Terrance Manetti, a man who turns into Ashton's inadvertent hero when he saves him from some unsavory types at a local restaurant...and may turn into more than that. Former mobster Terrance has been in Witness Protection with his "brothers" ever since they turned state's evidence against their former employer. His brothers have a different life here, filled with family and small-time, honest jobs, and Terrance doesn't know whether to be jealous or derisive. Not until he meets Ashton, anyway. With Ashton, Terrance could build the kind of life he's never dared to want--the kind of life where he won't need the skills he learned in organized crime. Or so he thinks--until Ashton's past comes looking for him....