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Would he still love her…if he knew?
Tanner Hayes smashed Claire's life to pieces when he chose the rodeo over her ten years ago. And now he'd wrecked her truck! Fantastic. She'd lost her husband, the family ranch was mired in debt, her father was recuperating from a stroke and her son was being bullied. Why not throw a reckless bull rider into the mix?
All she'd wanted was a safe, stable life. But with Tanner back in town—and staying on her ranch—nothing was safe, or under control. Not the feelings she'd fought so hard to forget. Not the son she was determined to protect. And certainly not her long-held secret…
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Excerpt:
Everything
happened at once and in slow motion.
A
crushing jolt shuddered through the truck. Her wheels skidded
sideways. She smacked against the window when her pickup rolled down
an embankment, as if punched by something large and lethal. Glass
rained deadly sharp. The earth tumbled around her, her truck in spin
cycle. When a massive tree loomed, the Chevy slammed into it then
stilled.
Winded
and stunned, she hung upside-down in her lap belt, blood, metallic
and warm, on her tongue, a rushing sound whistling in her ears. Her
heartbeat changed and grew slow and rolling in darkness. Something
hurt, a long way away. Then nothing.
“Ma’am.
Ma’am. Are you all right?” A man’s voice shouted, rousing her.
She tried turning her head but pain held it in place. When she opened
her mouth, silent panic flew out.
“Hold
on. I’m getting you out of there.”
Acrid
smoke pierced her consciousness. She closed her eyes against the
billowing grit.
This
wasn’t happening. It was a dream. No. A nightmare.
A
tugging motion jerked her right and left, followed by a ripping
sound. Large hands halted her sudden fall.
“Got
you.”
Her
rescuer cradled her against his chest, his breaths heaving beneath
her ear. After carrying her some distance, he lowered her slowly to
the ground. Grass scraped against her stinging cheeks and she opened
her eyes.
“What?”
she croaked, then swiped at the trickle leaking from her mouth. A man
wearing a cowboy hat hunched over her, his features blurred.
“You’ve
been in an accident. We have. Our trucks collided in the
intersection.”
“My
truck!” She bolted upright and clutched the swirling ground.
An
arm snaked around her back and eased her down. “I called the
dispatcher. The fire department’s on the way.”
A
wail sounded in the distance and Claire wanted to shriek with it.
Her
special day. Her anniversary. Ruined. No. Demolished by this…this…
She
squinted upward and focused. A dark swirl of hair brushed across the
tall man’s forehead; a light scar zigzagged down his square jaw.
Recognition zapped through her.
It
couldn’t be…
“Tanner?”
“Hello,
Claire.” His mouth went up, just a fraction—the same
ready-for-anything smile that had once undone her.
She
closed her eyes, heart thudding. Ten years since she’d vowed never
to see him again…and now here he stood, two for two in wrecking her
life.
Karen Rock is an award-winning YA and adult contemporary romance author. She holds a master's degree in English and was an ELA instructor before becoming a full-time writer. Currently she writes for Harlequin Blaze and Harlequin Heartwarming. Her novel, A LEAGUE OF HER OWN, won the 2015 National Excellence in Romance Fiction award in contemporary romance series and the 2015 Bookseller's Best award for contemporary romance, long.
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