Jack Garrett has been stung by love in the past so he's not in a hurry to get burnt again, but he can't deny his attraction to the new receptionist, Laurel Thomas.
When trouble comes to Tidal Falls, Jack worries that Laurel is in over her head.
Laurel loves her dysfunctional family but dreams of a place to call home. Just as she settles into a new life, her old one catches up to her and delivers chaos to the town.
Can these two strong personalities find a way to trust in each other and find their happy ever after?
Jack hesitated with his hand fisted to knock on Laurel’s pumpkin-colored door. His aunt had this thing about
brightly painted doors being good luck, or some such hogwash. The murmur of a
voice from within told him Laurel had company. Male company. He tapped
the file in his other hand against his thigh and glared a hole through the
door.
“Guess it can wait ’til morning,” he grumbled, turning to step gingerly
down the snow-covered stairs. Whoever-the-asshat-was, he could have at least
shoveled them off for her. Just as he reached the sidewalk an angry shout
coming from inside the house startled him. Jack grabbed for his service
revolver and jumped for the door. He missed the stairs entirely and dropped the
file, allowing it to fall unheeded into the snowbank. The papers from within
tobogganed down the slope.
He rammed a fist against the wood. “Sheriff’s department, open the
door.” His heart thundered in his chest and there was a ringing in his ears.
Was he having a frigging heart attack for crying out loud? He’d never reacted
like this before, not even when he’d chased after a murderer a few months ago.
But the thought of someone hurting…
“Laur…el,” he shouted, panic clawing the back of his throat. Jack tried
the knob but it was locked. He took a step back, angled himself sideways, and
prepared to slam his shoulder into the wood. He started forward, slipping a
little on the icy deck boards. Good thing, because it slowed him down just
enough to narrowly avoid ploughing Laurel over when she pulled the door open.
“Hello?”
When she saw him barrelling toward her with a gun in hand her beautiful
eyes took over her face. “Yee…ahh,” she cried, tumbling backward and smacking
her head against the now swinging door.
Fuuuck.
Jack tried backpedalling, but the slippery footing beneath his cowboy
boots—dumb choice of footwear—had him sailing right into her already off-balanced
body.
“Laurel, holy shit.” His hand reached out to grip her shoulder,
conscious of the soft womanly feel of her plastered against his rapidly
hardening body. Great. “I’m sorry, honey. Are you okay?”
From the time Jacquie was twelve years old, she knew she wanted to be a writer. That year she wrote a short story called Count Daffodil after spending countless hours searching for ideas. The story garnered Jacquie an A and was read aloud through the school's loudspeaker system. Needless to say, after that she was hooked.
Jacquie grew up, got married, raised a family and left her writing urges to simmer in the background unattended.
She owned and operated a successful diner in her hometown for a number of wonderful years before deciding to live her dream of becoming an author.
Jacquie's first book, Tidal Falls, a romantic suspense novel about second chances, released September of 2014.
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