A Shadow on the Ground
by Rebecca
Lee Smith
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BLURB:
Morgan
Maguire is afraid to believe in second chances. The family orchard is failing,
her twin brother is being framed for murder, and the sharks are circling. The
tough exterior she's spent years hiding behind is beginning to crumble, just as
the man who shattered her heart is back in her life. Gage Kirkland is as
compelling and magnetic as ever, and he's offering the kind of help she may not
be able to refuse. But can she trust him?
To
finance his troubled son's therapy, Gage, a former investigator, takes one last
job--recovering a stolen Civil War artifact. Unfortunately, it's in the
possession of the woman he left behind, the woman who's haunted his dreams ever
since. The electricity between them still crackles, but unless he helps
exonerate her brother and finds a way to confess his true reason for returning,
how will he ever recover Morgan's heart?
EXCERPT:
Gage leaned
forward with his elbows on his knees. The words weren’t exactly pouring out.
He took a
deep breath and clasped his hands in front of him, like a preacher signaling
for the congregation to bow their heads. Then he took another breath and plowed
ahead.
“Jeremy lost
his mother two months ago, and he's a mess right now. He keeps lashing out at
me, hoping to make me hurt as much as he does. I'm sure you've figured that
out. But I want you to know I did not kill my ex-wife—his mother.”
“I didn’t
think you did,” Morgan said.
“It was an
accident. There were extenuating circumstances which Jeremy blames me for. But
I did not—I could never—” He lifted his eyes and looked at her. “I don't want
you to think badly of me.”
“That's why
you came back here tonight? So I won't think badly of you?”
“Yes. I mean,
no. I just—”
“Well, I do
think badly of you. I'll always think badly of you.”
“You don't
mean that.”
“Why not? I
can think badly of you if I want to.
Most girls have a guy in their past they wish they'd never met. You're mine. Of
course, most girls don't get to experience the thrill of having the guy show up
out of the blue twelve years later. With his kid. On the worst day of their
lives.”
“If I'd known
you were going to find a dead body today, I would have waited until tomorrow to
show up.”
She leveled
her gaze at him. “I can’t tell you how much better that makes me feel.”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Rebecca lives
with her husband in the beautiful, misty mountains of East Tennessee, where the
people are charming, soulful, and just a little bit crazy. She's been
everything from a tax collector to a stay-at-home mom to a house painter to a
professional actress and director. When she's not churning out sensual romantic
mysteries with snappy dialogue and happy endings, she likes to travel, go to
the Outer Banks for her ocean fix, watch old movies, hang out at the local pub,
and make her day complete by correctly answering the Final Jeopardy! question.
www.rebeccaleesmith.com.
Twitter -
@rbeccaleesmith
Amazon Author
Page – http://amzn.to/1aEqJo4
Buy link for
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