title: The Optional Aunt
author: Hill, Zoe
description: The Optional Aunt is a dark romantic suspense novel featuring the following tropes: older woman/widow falls for husband's killer/light dom and sub elements. It is a full-length 100,000-word novel, that is complete story with a HEA, and can be read as a standalone.  She's the older woman. He's the man who killed her husband.  Rosalie Carmichael has spent most of her life doing as she's told. She is the perfect wife, a loving mother, and the aunt everyone calls on when they need a favor.Her life is peaceful until her happy family is torn apart, and she finds herself at the mercy of the Coalition once again.  Scared and alone for the first time since she was sixteen, Rosalie seeks comfort in the arms of her much younger bodyguard. Together they dream of a future where they're free to love each other out in the open without fear of recriminations or bloody repercussions.  And for six short months it seems as if escape might be possible.  Then the Coalition requests an urgent meeting, and Rosalie is left with an impossible choice. Choose the bloodless—and loveless—option or follow her heart down the violent path to freedom?  The Optional Aunt is a dark romantic suspense novel set in a world where deception is the norm, and the truth can't be trusted. It is the second book in the Coalition series of interconnected romantic suspense novels about a secretive organization of wealthy families intent on bringing about a new world order and the motorcycle club determined to stop them.