Blurb:
Hope Kildaire gave up her dream of
becoming a nurse practitioner when a car accident killed her father and left
her mother an invalid. Working two jobs and caring for her mother leaves the
twenty-seven-year-old with no time for fun or relationships. When a law firm representing
her paternal grandparents sends her several letters, Hope ignores them. She
despises the family who disowned her father and wants nothing to do with them.
Lawyer Tyler Coleman's job is simply to
obtain Hope's signature on a legal document. Getting it is harder than planned,
though, when an unexpected attraction blossoms between them. If Ty is honest
with Hope about why he's in Willow Springs, he'll fulfill his assignment but
may risk hurting her.
The opportunity to have everything she's
ever desired is at Hope's fingertips. Will her dream come true at the expense
of Tyler's love?
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Excerpt:
He cleared his throat, breaking into her
thoughts, the sound barreling around them on the empty street.
“Well.” He buried his hands deeper into
his jacket pockets. “I can see for myself you’re fine. You’ve had a full day,
so I’ll let you get on home. Thanks again for the great lesson this morning.
And for keeping me company while you worked.”
“It was nice to have someone to talk with, so
in reality, I should be thanking you. And for seeing that I was safe.”
She wasn’t sure why, but when his cheeks
darkened and his chin and gaze dropped down again at her words, she was utterly
enchanted.
Without thinking why she shouldn’t, Hope
stretched up, intending to kiss his cheek. At the moment right before her lips
touched his skin, Tyler lifted his head and turned toward her. The kiss meant
for his face landed squarely across his lips instead.
They both went stone still at the
contact.
She’d put no heat behind the kiss. After
all, it wasn’t as if she were kissing a man she was involved with. No, she’d
simply planned it as a sweet way to thank him for being so kind and solicitous
toward her, as she would to anyone she considered a friend.
Why, then, didn’t this feel like a
chaste kiss between friends?
Why, then, did she feel as if she’d been
dropped into a spewing volcano?
And why, then, did the thought of
breaking the kiss leave her cold and lonely?
Tyler kept his hands in his pockets,
never moving closer, and yet she felt enveloped by him as if he’d wound her
into his arms and pulled her against his body. He let out a deep, long breath,
the warm air drifting over her face and sending little tingles of...something...straight
down her spine. Anticipation? Expectation? Desire? She had no clue, but Hope
felt more alive and more aware than she had in years.
A tiny gasp pushed from deep within her
when Tyler shifted his head, changing the angle of the kiss.
His lips parted, the taste of hops and
barley riding on his breath as she breathed him in. He kept the kiss light,
never pushing her into more, giving her all the control of where it went.
Hope had no idea how long they stood
there under the bright streetlamp on the empty corner. It could have been a
minute. It could have been an hour. The notion briefly blew through her mind
that they were out in the open in a town where everyone knew her and liked
nothing more to do on long winter nights than gossip. As quick as it came, the
knowledge that she didn’t care a whit countered it.
Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes about
strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without
them.
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, Peggy brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
Tying into her love of families, her children's book, THE KINDNESS TALES, was illustrated by her artist mother-in-law.
Peggy holds a master's degree in Nursing Administration and first found publication with several articles she authored on Alzheimer's Disease during her time running an Alzheimer's in-patient care unit during the 1990s.
In 2013, she placed first in two categories in the Dixie Kane Memorial Contest: Single Title Contemporary Romance and Short/Long Contemporary Romance.
In 2017 she came in 3rd in the New England Reader's Choice contest for A KISS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS and was a finalist in the 2017 STILETTO contest for the same title.
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, Peggy brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
Tying into her love of families, her children's book, THE KINDNESS TALES, was illustrated by her artist mother-in-law.
Peggy holds a master's degree in Nursing Administration and first found publication with several articles she authored on Alzheimer's Disease during her time running an Alzheimer's in-patient care unit during the 1990s.
In 2013, she placed first in two categories in the Dixie Kane Memorial Contest: Single Title Contemporary Romance and Short/Long Contemporary Romance.
In 2017 she came in 3rd in the New England Reader's Choice contest for A KISS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS and was a finalist in the 2017 STILETTO contest for the same title.
In 2018, Peggy was a
finalist in the HOLT MEDALLION Award and once again in the 2018 Stiletto
Contest.
A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, she is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, she is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
Amazon Author page:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00T8E5LN0
BookBub:
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/peggy-jaeger
