BLURB:
Kate
Logan needs a safe haven, a place to start over after her modeling
career disintegrates in scandal. But her hometown of Aspen Lake isn’t
the sanctuary she hoped. Her vow of a low-key life is disrupted by a
break-in and other strange happenings at her boutique. As the chair
of Aspen Lake’s Gothic Revival Festival, she’s also drawn the ire
of a religious fanatic. Kate is up to her stilettos in drama and
intrigue including one sexy carpenter who’s determined to get in
her way.
New
to town, Seth Stone is seeking inspiration and solitude to
concentrate on his art. Short on funds, he agrees to take on a second
job restoring the damage to Kate’s Closet. Trouble erupts along
with the desire to get to know Kate better. When he’s used as a
pawn in a smear campaign against his gorgeous boss Seth fights back.
But now the whole town is watching. Including the man determined to
further his own agenda. Time is running out with nowhere to hide.
Excerpt
:
Against
Kate’s will, her lips twitched and she nodded. “Why don’t we
see how the door goes first?”
“Fair
enough. I’ll do my best to amaze.” He grinned. A heart-stopping,
slow-spreading, deadly kind of grin. A slight lift of the corners
until it gradually widened to reach all the way to his eyes. Eyes
that hid a hint of jungle cat in them. The kind of smile that took
forever to get where it was going, but when it got there you felt
like someone had forgotten to yell “Clear!” before they used the
paddles.
When she
committed to getting sober, booze wasn’t the only thing she’d
given up. If you didn’t count the one night of insanity and
crushing loneliness she’d succumbed to, it meant she hadn’t had
sex in over a year. She battened down her hatches as a lovely rush of
hormones washed through her. He wasn’t her type. She didn’t go
for younger men, and she put him somewhere in his early twenties. She
was twenty-nine going on eighty. No, he was not for her. But that
didn’t stop her from squirming in her high heels.
“I’ll
leave you to it.” She slipped her ice queen persona back into
place, stiffened her spine and her resolve as she tried not to ooze
pheromones. Or desperation. Then she decided to ignore all of it and
him and hoped any potential fantasies died from lack of cultivation.
She had enough problems. She didn’t need gorgeous. Or intense. Or
broad shouldered. It was time to give older, stable, and established
a try. A gentleman by choice. One who owned a suit. Someone
respectable. She did a quick scan of Seth’s back view. Not a guy
who looked like summertime at the beach. Were those leather
bracelets? With beads?
And
what? She was doing inventory now?
So...he
was hot. Her life was a mess. She didn’t need it to become a hot
mess.
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
I grew
up on a farm in the middle of Canada's breadbasket. Under the canopy
of crisp blue prairie skies I read books. Lots and lots of books. One
day the inevitable happened and I knew without question the time was
right. What to write was never the issue - romance and the gut
wrenching journey towards forever.
Goodreads:
Karyn Good https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6152677.Karyn_Good
BARNES
AND NOBLE:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/exposed-r-stephanie-good/1100323886?ean=2940151058605
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ReplyDeleteCharacters often find themselves in situations they aren't sure they can get themselves out of. When was the last time you found yourself in a situation that was hard to get out of and what did you do?
ReplyDeleteConflict is a very important part of any story which means putting characters in many interesting and difficult situations. My own life is quite boring, thank goodness.
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I enjoyed the excerpt, sounds like a really good book, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteReally great excerpt, thanks for sharing!
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