(Where Secrets are Safe #8)
by Tara Taylor Quinn
Adult Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 384 pages
May 1st 2016 by Harlequin SuperromanceLacey Hamilton is used to living in the background. Overshadowed her entire life, she stepped out of the Hollywood limelight and into the role she's meant to play: a counselor, part of the High Risk Team started by The Lemonade Stand women's shelter in Santa Raquel.
Her caseload leads her to the doorstep of Jeremiah "Jem" Bridges to rescue a little boy. She's not supposed to fall in love with the rugged construction worker and his adorable son. Love and duty, though, don't always agree. Especially when a truth is uncovered that neither she nor Jem is prepared to face.
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“It’s her and her twin, Dad! See?” Levi said, loudly enough for anyone in the parking lot to hear. Uncle Bob’s parking lot, not the adjacent one.
So much for thinking that the social worker had given his son nightmares.
“Yeah, I see.” Jem, giving a small tug on Levi’s hand, turned toward the restaurant. “And her name is Lacey.”
“Lacey!” Levi called out immediately. Not at all what he’d intended. Should have kept his mouth shut…
He thought about telling his son they absolutely did not want to speak with the other woman. Telling him that for their own safety they had to stay away from her. But he couldn’t figure out how to do so when Levi had been told she was a friend. He’d let her take Levi alone to a playroom. He’d let her in their home, to see Levi’s room and most prized possessions.
The women were almost at the first row of cars. He didn’t see the one that had been parked outside his home on one of the worst nights of his life.
“La-a-a-a-a-ceeeeey!” Levi called again, turning around to watch her as Jem pulled him toward Uncle Bob’s.
“She stopped!” Levi said, digging his feet into the graveled pavement. Deciding that dragging his son in front of his ex–social worker wouldn’t be a smart move—he’d never drag him, period—Jem stopped, too.
“Come on, Dad! She sees us!” Levi was pulling him now, away from Uncle Bob’s front door.
Coming up with no other options, Jem looked toward his son’s goal. “I want to see a twin.” Levi’s voice was not getting any softer.
“You’ve seen twins before,” he told the boy. If he’d been able to remember when he’d have pointed the instance out to him. There weren’t any in preschool, that he could think of. None of Jem’s buddies had twins… Surely…
“Hi, Lacey!” Levi called as they got close to the women. Short-shorts was coming toward them now. Jem knew an uncanny disappointment that the big welcoming smile on the unknown woman’s face didn’t also appear on the identical face next to hers.
Clearly Lacey was no happier about this meeting than he was.
The author of more than 70 original novels, in twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestseller with over six million copies sold. A 2015 RITA finalist Tara appears frequently on bestseller lists, including #1 placement on Amazon lists, and multiple showings on the Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller list. She has appeared on national and local TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning.
Tara is a supporter of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you or someone you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233.
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Great quote: "Love and duty, though, don't always agree."
ReplyDeleteSounds like another great book. Picture perfect cover.
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