“What am I missing?” Rowan whispered in my ear.
I reached up and patted his cheek. “I love you. Let’s run away to Bermuda for the holidays.”
His lips turned up in a knowing smirk. “Getting the families together for the holidays was your idea, baby.”
“For the very first time in my life, I was wrong.”
I felt Rowan chuckle against my body as his lips touched the skin at my neck. “Besides, it’ll make proposing so much easier with everyone here. Get it all out of the way in one fell swoop.”
I pulled my head back on a sharp inhale, excitement coursing through my veins. “Wait… are you… really… right now?”
“No, not right now. But soon.”
Just as I stood on my tip-toes to press my lips against Rowan’s, my cell phone rang from inside of my purse. Pulling it out, I looked down at the screen, my brows furrowing in worry.
“Who is it?” Rowan asked.
“It’s Harlow.” At the sound of her name, everyone in our circle grew quiet. They all knew about Harlow’s unexpected trip back to the town she grew up in. She and her brother had been raised by their grandparents. Their grandfather had passed years back, and with her grandmother’s health suddenly taking a turn for the worse, she needed to go take care of her little brother. We were all concerned, but it was the lack of communication between Harlow and me that was bothering me the most. Every time I tried calling, she either didn’t answer or kept the conversations short. It was evident in her voice that she wasn’t doing well.
I feared the worst. She never really talked about her past, and I never felt right pushing her, but from what I gathered, she’d left something behind in Jackson Hole that had changed her.
“You think everything’s okay?” he asked, rubbing his thumb along my jaw and holding me tighter, offering me comfort when I needed it most.
“God, I hope so.”
Be on the lookout for Harlow’s story,
Wildflower
coming January 2016
As always, first and foremost, my never ending thanks and love goes to my husband for always being my rock. I have no doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t be able to do this without you.
To Jennifer Wolfel, Jenn Van Wyk, and Aly Martinez ~ Your help has been instrumental in bringing Navie and Rowan’s story to life and making it the best it could possibly be. Aly, your “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” probably saved me from being attacked by countless readers. LOL.
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BE SURE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THE COLORS NOVELS!
Scattered Colors
The use of the phrase life is hard has become so diluted, so overstated through the years that when someone hears it the words go in one ear and out the other. The impact is no longer there. The meaning, the importance of that phrase no longer holds any water with those it's spoken to.
Freya Linden's life became hard at the age of seventeen, the summer before her senior year of high school. The bright colors of her life faded into black and white, a colorless shell full of loneliness.
Until she met him.
Parker Owens breathed life back into her world. With him she began to heal. But happiness isn't a guarantee. Sometimes opening yourself up only leads to more heartbreak. The person she thought to be her saving grace shattered her completely.
Her story isn't a pretty one. The bumps in the road were monumental and infinite. But it's her story. And the one thing that holds true is this: despite the hardships, she made it through to the other side.
Shrinking Violet
Forgiveness
From the time we’re old enough to understand the word, we’re taught to forgive those who wrong us, so what do you do when the one person you can’t forgive is yourself?
For Cassidy Ashworth, it’s a question that haunts her. Forgiveness has become a foreign concept. Self-loathing is something she’s much more familiar with. Convinced that she doesn’t deserve happiness, Cassidy is determined to spend every day trying to make up for the wrong she’s done. But no amount of repenting for the past will ever convince her that she’s worthy of a future with Carson Langford.
Raised in the foster system, Carson has always been a throwaway kid. He knows firsthand just how cruel life can be, how easy it is for people to prey on the weak, and there’s nothing Carson detests more than a bully. So focused on his self-imposed role of protector, he never counted on the beautiful blonde with the haunted eyes to stumble into his life and shake up his world.
Despite her reluctance, Carson is determined to have Cassidy in his life, but once the truth of her past comes to light, the question is…will he still want to keep her?
Love Hate Relationship
People say that sometimes the line between love and hate is thin. What they don’t tell you is that sometimes it’s invisible.
Rowan Locklaine gave his heart to one woman a long time ago and has no desire to go through that kind of torture ever again. His painful past has turned him cold and heartless. Women serve only one purpose as far as he’s concerned, and relationships are nothing but a waste of time and energy. When the mouthy little blonde, Navie Collins, is hired as his personal assistant, he finds his world turned upside down. And against his better judgment, he can’t seem to stop thinking about her.
Navie Collins has spent years convinced she’s not good enough, that no one could possibly want her. Growing up the way she did helped to thicken her skin, so when she walks into a job interview and meets the temperamental, foul-mouthed, best-selling author, Rowan Locklaine, she’s all too happy to put him in his place.
Rowan and Navie are convinced they hate each other. But as time passes and the attraction between them begins to grow, these two stubborn, strong-willed people have a life changing decision to make. Can they move beyond their pain for a chance at something better, or are they destined to let their pasts dictate their future?
Wildflower (coming January 2016)
At sixteen, Harlow Prewitt thought she’d found the love of her life. At seventeen, that love was put to the ultimate test. And at eighteen, it failed completely, shattering her beyond repair.
Leaving behind everything she had ever known, Harlow was determined to start over some place different, some place where memories of the past couldn’t follow. And she was never going back.
Or so she thought.
Noah Murphy has lived a life full of regrets. But Harlow’s unexpected return has given him another chance, and he’s determined to make this one count. Because a love like theirs isn’t something people find more than once in a lifetime. This time he won’t let her go. This time he’ll fight with everything he has. He might have lost her before, but he’ll be damned if he loses her the second time around.
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