It is clear they pair of them have fallen for each other, but Mikhail we learn is damaged goods from his days on the streets in Russia. I love the way that Amy builds up the attraction without it being insta-love.

They spend a wonderful day together and find themselves drawn to each other. Here he meets Mikhail Vasilyovitch Bayul who is also in the same dance troop as his sister.

She is a dancer and admits to him that she has been through rehab for drug abuse and is now OK, although she is still together with the source of her troubles, her boyfriend Kurt. His sister, Kimmy, whom he hasn’t seen for a long time contacts him as she is at a local renaissance fair. He gets a pay off and makes a new life for himself in Levee Oaks. This for me was absolutely horrifying to hear how despicable he was treated while he was a policeman in Los Angeles just because his department found out that he is gay or should I say bi. In the prologue we learn about the time before he comes to Levee Oaks and why he is now there. However, Shane also has his own story to tell. He finds himself accepted and also ends up with his feet under the table and being welcomed. We are introduced to him briefly in the first book as the nice new cop in town who calls on the family at The Pulpit regarding Benny and her child. If you have seen a grown man behind the steering wheel of his car in a traffic jam sobbing his eyes out, then it was probably me! Once again Amy Lane reduced me to tears, but also put all the pieces back together again for one wonderful HEA. Earnest, brave, and self-deprecating, Shane seems to speak Mikhail's language, and no one is more surprised than Mikhail to find that keeping promises is Shane's best talent of all. Making promises to anybody else is completely out of the question-but then, Mikhail has never met anybody like Shane. Since he left Russia, he's made only two promises: to stay off the streets and stay clean, and to take his mother someplace beautiful before she dies. Mikhail Vasilyovitch Bayul dances like an angel, but his past is less than heavenly. Kimmy makes her living as a dancer, and her partner steals Shane's breath at first sight. He ends up an officer in the small town of Levee Oaks, and, addicted to the promise of family, he makes an effort to reconcile with his flighty, troubled sister. But after a career-shattering decision to go down fighting, Shane comes home from the hospital to four empty walls, a pile of money, and a burning desire for someone to miss him the next time he gets hurt in the line of duty.

All Shane Perkins ever wanted to be was a hero.

Keeping promise rock by amy lane