Blurb:
I’ve
been burned by my ex-fiancée and sentenced myself to long shifts at the
hospital ever since. There’s no way I’d give anyone else the opportunity to
break my heart again.
Until chance brings me face to face with the girl from my past.
Danielle is still as beautiful as ever, and seeing her reminds me of how I felt about her—how I still feel about her.
But she’s changed. I can see it when I look into her eyes. It’s like she’s no longer living, but merely existing. An enigma laden with secrets from her past—secrets that are forcing her to run from me. Only this time, I won’t let her get away so easily.
I’m determined to peel away every layer of secrets she carries around her, and to protect her from whatever it is that’s causing her to run.
Danielle Reynolds will not slip through my fingers again.
This time…she stays.
Until chance brings me face to face with the girl from my past.
Danielle is still as beautiful as ever, and seeing her reminds me of how I felt about her—how I still feel about her.
But she’s changed. I can see it when I look into her eyes. It’s like she’s no longer living, but merely existing. An enigma laden with secrets from her past—secrets that are forcing her to run from me. Only this time, I won’t let her get away so easily.
I’m determined to peel away every layer of secrets she carries around her, and to protect her from whatever it is that’s causing her to run.
Danielle Reynolds will not slip through my fingers again.
This time…she stays.
Excerpt I
The last thing Adrian Dukas wanted to do after a
twelve-hour shift was head to the Gin Mill. However, Lex had asked him to pick
up her last paycheck from Mitch, and he needed the guaranteed bait in order for
his sister to show to the next family dinner.
She’d been avoiding all of them since she got out from
her six months of jail time following a protest that had gotten way too Mad Max
to be contained. The tipping point in her case was assault on an officer, since
they’d obtained visual proof of Lex screaming like a banshee as she slung the
first punch. Typical. Cal offered to pick up her check even though the last
time they’d talked, she called Cal an unprincipled shit. However, Adrian was
the oldest—if anyone could deal with Alexis, he could.
He sure as hell hadn’t expected to walk into the
middle of a standoff between a big bruiser and a short redhead who prepared to
slurp the guy’s spine through a straw.
And when she’d punched the big bruiser square in the
jaw?
Well, he just might’ve fallen in love.
Excerpt II
Danny’s throat
tightened, and she reached over to weave her fingers through his, leaving her
pumps discarded on the sand.
She brought him
forward, and together, they took their first stumbling steps into the shivering
cold waters that nipped at her toes. The foam slithered around her ankles
before receding.
“It’s been such a
long time since I had any control over my life that I sometimes forget what
stable feels like,” Danny murmured, needing to share some part of her. Even if
she couldn’t tell him the facts or fill in the blanks of her story, he still
could know her, deep down. She was no better than the shells by her feet,
tumbling this way and that at the beck and call of the waves. Whether her cover
got compromised or her dad moved cities, something always pulled her away every
time she tried to settle into an area.
Adrian squeezed
her hand tight. And then he kicked a spray of water in her direction.
Danny spluttered
as the ice-cold drops imprinted on her dress and splashed against her face, the
surprise smacking into her. For a second, she stood there gaping at him as a
hesitant smile curled his lips.
The bubble in her chest expanded and burst
as laughs exploded from her. “You fucker,” she shouted, kicking a spray of
water back at him.
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