BLURB:
Miya Jackson always believed life
had more to offer outside Dead End, Texas. So when circumstances turned her
life upside down, she took her chance to break free. A few years—and some
brutal doses of reality—later, her little sister’s wedding brings her back to
the hometown she left behind.
The last place she expects is to end
up is in the arms of the man she’s tried and failed to forget. One scalding,
passionate night is all it takes to make her rethink her damn good reasons for
leaving.
Shawn Dalton always hoped this day
would come. Hell, he and Miya have a history, and any misunderstandings can be
fixed if she’ll only stay in one spot long enough. Now that’s she’s back, he’s
determined to make her see that she belongs in Dead End. With him.
Her obstinate nature is intact, but
he can deal with that. It’s the cold, detached woman she’s become that worries
him. Melting that wall—and reminding Miya of her roots—is going to take every
hot, sinful moment he can wrangle.
EXCERPT:
Years
of holding him accountable withered under the desire drenching her veins. If
she didn’t get ahold of her emotions, she was in trouble.
“Oh,
please,” she muttered weakly. “Like you would have thought or believed anything
different if the roles had been reversed.”
“I
would have given you a chance to explain.”
“Spoken
like someone who never had to deal with that kind of hurt.” She poked a finger
against his chest. “I never would have let myself get in that situation. I
would have known it wasn’t you. You don’t get to blame beer or Susan.”
“I
blame myself.” He dragged a hand through his hair. “I wish I could change the
past.”
“But
you can’t.” At least that was the truth. “Neither can I. So let’s leave it be.”
That
should have been the end of it.
“No.
I can’t.” He lowered his head, his lips only a breath away. “You must have
hated me.”
He
was so close. It didn’t matter what the past threw at them. She wouldn’t stop
him if he pressed closer… How could she when she wanted his kiss—and so much
more? He’d always been her weakness.
“I
think I still hate you,” she managed. She’d spent so much time trying to
forget… How could his simple touch make her want what she’d left behind?
“No.
There could never be hate between us.”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Candi Wall is probably the
only person whose real name is more epic than any pseudonym she could have come
up with – even as an author! She writes because the voices in her head have to
come out somehow. Animal rescue-ess, mother of four, and soccer mom by day, she
spends her free time writing – often on napkins at kids’ games because she
never knows when a juicy story will reveal its delicious self. She once wrote a
sex scene at a wrestling meet. Shhhhhh!
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