Miranda Brookhaven returned to Bitterthorn, Texas
to fix the past. Years ago, her father used her teenage romance with Coe Rodas
to steal the prototype for a groundbreaking new automotive invention. Now her
father's dead, and thanks to the convoluted will he left behind, she's stuck in
town until she rights the wrong that lost her the man she loved.
Coe learned early on that life never goes
according to plan. His dreams of hitting it big vanished when Miranda all but
invited her father to take the only thing of value he ever had. But now the
once-pampered princess is holed up in a condemned trailer on the edge of
town...and everything he thought he knew about her—and about what happened
between them back then—seems completely wrong.
Miranda's determined to give back to Coe all that
he lost. If she can do that, maybe she can move on from the past. But Coe seems
to be more interested in their rekindled passion than claiming what she thinks
he deserves. She's got sixty days to convince him to cough up evidence that
he's the original inventor—after that, the only way to transfer the patent
rights over to him would be to make him part of the family, and she's not sure
her heart can take another hit.
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The moment he came within reach, she dug her
fingers into the rough wool of his coat and tugged him into a kiss. A world of
revenge was packed into it—a need to tantalize with the alluring stroke of her
tongue, determined to make him remember all that he’d thrown away by kicking
her out of his life. She wanted him to suffer—to
lie awake tonight and yearn for her, all the while knowing she was lost to him
forever. She wanted to punish him with a lush pleasure that could never be his
again.
More than anything, she wanted him to know the
torment she’d carried inside for seven long years.
A rough sound growled deep in his throat, and
she couldn’t tell whether it was a sound of warning or of pleasure as she
nuzzled her lips against his to perfect the fit. His flavor was even better
than she remembered, and for a heartbeat it transported her to a past where the
world was perfect and the people in her life loved her as unstintingly as she
loved them. That had been a beautiful life, but it had never been reality. It
never would be, no matter how desperately she ached to bring that time back.
When she felt Coe’s arms lift to gather her
closer, she hardened the heart he and her father had crushed so long ago, and
pushed him away. And when she raised her eyes to his, she hoped he only saw icy
fury there, and none of the bittersweet anguish she’d opened herself up to when
she chose to punish him with a kiss.
A competitive figure skater from the age of
eight, Stacy Gail began writing stories in between events to pass the time. By
the age of fourteen, she told her parents she was either going to be a figure
skating coach who was also a published romance writer, or a romance writer who
was also a skating pro. Now with a day job of playing on the ice with her
students, and writing everything from steampunk to cyberpunk, contemporary to
paranormal at night, both dreams have come true.
Thank you for allowing me to hop on your blog! :)
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