Valentin — Elle James

Valentin Vachon, former Navy SEAL, loves women but is allergic to commitment. Trained and highly effective in extraction operations, he left the military when the Navy decided he should be a training instructor for fresh recruits to the BUD/S program. With no patience for wet-behind-the-ears kids, he opts out of the military and joins his old friend Remy as a mercenary and then as part of a team of Brotherhood Protectors in the Louisiana bayous. His determination to avoid kids backfires when he's assigned to secretly protect a schoolteacher.Seventh grade science teacher, Ouida Mae Miz Mo Maudet, is the target of protests and strange threats at school. Between defending her curriculum and protecting her students, she struggles to determine the source of the threats and remain safe in her work environment until a gruff, new teacher comes to her rescue.Valentin's undercover persona as a P.E. teacher to non-athletic seventh graders is more of a challenge than facing rabid, drug-running guerilla fighters in the jungles of South America. Even more challenging is his unwarranted attraction to the feisty science teacher he's been sent to protect.As threats increase and protests become more violent, Valentin is forced to go 24/7 with the beautiful Miz Mo and fights to keep her safe while struggling against his growing desire for the teacher, edging ever closer to that cursed C-word...commitment.