Five Brothers

Penelope Douglas's Five Brothers follows a young woman who has spent time in a rough, swampy corner of town with the Jaeger brothers, five men who live on the far side of the tracks from the comfortable life she was raised in. Now she has decided it is time to go back to her parents' large house and the tidy street where nothing is ever messy or out of control.

Each brother leaves a different mark on her. Macon, thirty-one, is a former Marine who never seems to smile. Army, twenty-eight, is a single father with striking green eyes, and he doesn't know who he is without the Jaeger name. Iron is headed for prison, though his gentle manner would never tell you so, and he can't stop himself from reacting to everything around him. Dallas, twenty-one, is the one she despises, a cruel and selfish man who uses people up and discards what remains. Then there is Trace, who was hers for a very short time, and who no one has ever managed to hold on to.

She plans to leave at first light, but tonight she only wants to sleep on their couch. The house is dark and still until someone comes up behind her as she cries, wraps her in his arms, and doesn't stop at comfort. She is fairly sure it isn't Trace, and that doubt is where the secrets of the Jaeger brothers begin to unravel.