Blurb:
For nearly a decade, Maggie has put the needs of
her younger siblings ahead of her own. Now she’s willing to accept a marriage
without passion in order to protect her brother, but fate has a wicked sense of
humor. On the eve of her wedding, Maggie meets the man of her dreams.
When Shamus loses a bet, the penalty is a blind
date. Shamus is prepared to endure a long, boring night; the last thing he
expects is to find the woman who can bring his heart back to life.
But Maggie is keeping secrets--and her engagement
is only one of them.
Excerpt:
“And we are
thirty seconds from the New Year,” the TV announced.
Shamus stood in
front of Maggie, drawing her to her feet.
“Twenty
seconds!”
His dark blue
eyes appeared almost indigo in the soft light of the bar.
“Ten seconds!”
“Nine…eight…”
He cupped her
face in his hands.
“Five…four…”
I can’t kiss him. I’m engaged.
As the old year
closed and the new one began, Shamus touched his lips to hers. The noise
surrounding them faded.
The warmth of
his callused hands framed her face. His rum and coke flavored kiss began with a
tenderness that stole the breath from her lungs. As his kiss grew in intensity,
the warm swirls that had danced in her blood all night grew as well, reaching a
lava hot stage within seconds.
When Maggie was
fifteen, her mother told her about the first time she kissed Maggie’s father.
“Once in your life,” her mother said, “there’s a kiss that shatters everything
you thought you knew and changes the direction of your life.”
She understood
now. Maggie pressed her fingers to her lips in a fruitless attempt to hold onto
the sweetest kiss of her life. Tears strangled her heart at the realization
that it was also the most bitter, since it could only mean farewell.
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