BLURB:
Alice
Grantham lost her fiancé and her job, so she’s had to come home to Willow Park
to live with her parents. To recover some sense of independence and security,
she’s cobbled together different part-time jobs, including one as assistant to
the pastor of her hometown church. Nothing seems to be going right for her.
Even Micah, the pastor’s brother and the first boy she ever loved, is
standoffish with her now.
Micah has
always been a prodigal son, but now he’s trying to put that lifestyle behind
him. Then a five-month-old daughter he never knew existed is dropped on his
doorstep, the result of one of his many one-night stands. He needs help from
Alice to care for his daughter, but he can’t let himself hope for anything more
from her than that. He can’t help but want it, though…
ENJOY THIS EXCERPT:
“Well, how is it supposed to go?” Micah demanded.
“Don’t you know how to work a car seat?”
“Why would I know? I’ve never had a baby. You’re
the one who’s supposed to be mechanically inclined. Why can’t you figure it
out?”
“I sure wouldn’t have designed this ridiculous
contraption in a way that’s impossible to hook in the car.”
“Oh, wait,” Alice gasped, remembering something she
should have recalled earlier. “I think it’s supposed to face the other way.”
“That can’t be right.” Micah turned the carrier as
she’d indicated. He was bending over into the car, and he looked just as hot
and frustrated as she felt. “Why would they make the poor babies look at
nothing but the back of the seat?”
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s safer or something. Let’s
just try it. Maybe the belt goes through like this.”
Micah fed the belt through the grooves, and the
buckle got stuck at one point. “Shit,” he muttered, trying to free the belt.
“Shit.” Then he glanced up at her. “Sorry.”
“You don’t have to keep saying sorry,” she replied,
slightly snippy. “I’ve heard worse, you know.”
“I know that. But do you really think I should be
teaching her bad language this early?”
“She can’t even talk yet.”
“Well, she can hear.”
“Fine,” Alice grumbled, tilting the carrier
slightly to make room for Micah’s run of the belt. “Watch your language then.”
He gave her a cool glare, but it changed when Alice
was able to snap the seatbelt closed.
They both tested the carrier to make sure it was
stable, but they couldn’t get it to move more than an inch, no matter how they
tugged on it, so they assumed it would do for the short ride to Micah’s house.
Alice sighed in relief as she finally climbed out
of the car and walked around to the driver’s side.
Micah was leaning against the car, wiping sweat
from his forehead with the back of his hand. He looked exhausted, defeated
somehow.
Despite her annoyance just the moment before, she
felt another pull of sympathy. She reached out to put a hand on his shoulder.
“It’s going to be all right.”
“Is it?” he asked, opening his eyes to meet hers.
“Yeah. We’ll figure this out. We don’t know
anything yet.”
“But what if she’s mine? What if her mom really
doesn’t want her? What if I’m the only parent she has? I can’t even manage to
get her strapped into the car.”
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Noelle
handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was
twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different
states and currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any
book she can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker
spaniel.
She
loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of
her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and
focus on writing contemporary romances.
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ReplyDeleteNoelle, thanks so much for being here today. I love the cover and the blurb hooked me right away. May you have much success and a lovely Easter.
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