Blurb:
Dedicated career girl Holly Grant has no time for romance. She doesn’t need a man to complete her, thank you very much. Building Grant Realty takes all of her time and attention. If she can close a deal for Turnaround Farm, her business will take off like a rocket. Her first problem is that Jeb Wakefield doesn’t want to sell his farm, and her second problem is Jeb’s grandson Dan, the finest looking man Holly’s ever seen.
In Turnaround Farm it’s hard for me to pick a favorite excerpt because there are many choices. This is a romance novel, but the hero and heroine are both flawed and wounded by their pasts. They have a lot of issues to settle before learning to trust each other and their love. In fact, they almost lose each other forever. In this excerpt Jeb Wakefield, Dan’s grandfather, offers Dan some advice that he isn’t really ready to embrace.
“Why don’t you marry Holly?” Jeb asked as Dan dried the dinner dishes for him that night.
Dan dropped a pot that clanged and bounced on the kitchen floor.
“Holly likes you,” Jeb continued, “and you need a wife. You need the kind of comfort and support a woman gives a man.”
“Aren’t you forgetting something?” Dan asked as he picked up the pot and rinsed it off.
“What?”
“Holly would have to agree, and I don’t think she would.”
His grandfather laughed as if he knew something Dan didn’t know. “I think she might.”
Dan dried the pot and stuck in a cabinet. “Holly isn’t interested in getting married right now.”
Jeb shot him a look of surprise. “Did she say so?”
“Yes, she did.”
Jeb ignored the dishes in the sink. “So, the subject of marriage did come up.”
“Not exactly,” Dan hedged. He put a stack of plates in the cabinet and wished he’d kept his mouth shut.
“It either did or it didn’t, Dan.”
“Well, I guess it did.”
“Did you ask her to marry you?”
“No, not exactly.”
Jeb slightly offended him by sighing as if he had an idiot for a grandson. “Why not? She can’t accept until you ask her.”
Dan’s shoulders hunched. “She deserves better than me, that’s why.”
“They don’t come any better than you.”
Yeah, right. What did he have to show for all the work he’d done? He dried a cup and reached for the knife his grandfather had just laid down. “She does deserve someone better. Somebody like the guy she bought her house from, Kurt Deveraux. He’s got a college degree and a good job coaching football at Tri State Tech. He bought his wife a big new house. I couldn’t give anything like that to Holly.”
Jeb shrugged and made light of Kurt Deveraux. “So what? Deveraux can do what he wants, and so can you.”
“Let it go, Gramps. I’m not getting married.”
“You think about it, Dan.” Jeb passed him the last item, a cookie sheet. “Holly knows who and what you are, and if she’s happy with you, that’s all that matters.”
Yeah, if only it were that simple. What did he have to offer besides a rundown farm and a suspect gene pool? Holly did deserve better. He’d already invited her to dinner on Valentine’s Day, and after the horse show, he’d stop seeing her. Really, it was for the best. Really.
If you’re interested in learning more about Kurt Deveraux, you can find out more in The Captain and the Cheerleader. Both books are available from Amazon.
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