by Jodi Thomas
A song came to him about lovers driven by passion into a loving that lasted forever.
Near midnight, he stopped singing and just played a few of the old tunes he loved. He wasn’t sure how it happened, but sometime in his learning to play the music started skipping his brain and going straight from his ears to his fingers. He could play almost anything he heard. It was like the music had come into him and now would live within him as long as he breathed.
Maybe he didn’t need hard times to play. Maybe just life with its good and bad was all he needed. The prize wasn’t to live a perfect life but only to survive the times between the perfect moments that come along just often enough to keep him going.
As his fingers moved, an old classic Ford pulled up in front of the duplex. “Write me a ticket, Red,” he whispered as he set his guitar down and walked out.
“Evening, Trouble.” He tipped his hat.
“Want to go for a ride?” She smiled. “I know an old part of Route 66 that no one’s been on for years.”
He spread his arms out along the top of her car door and leaned down to kiss her before walking around to the other side to climb in.
With his hat low and his head back he said simply, “Drive.”
She shot off into the night, heading for moonlight along a blacktop road.
In New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas’s small town of Harmony, Texas, “something is always brewing” (Fallen Angel Reviews). Now, a generations-old feud is about to come to a head—and the stakes couldn’t be higher with two hearts on the line…
Cord McMillan gave up his freedom at eighteen when he went to jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, ten years later, he’s about to give it up again for a piece of land. Nevada Britain, his neighbor, has just made him an offer he can’t refuse: If he will marry her, she will sign over a section of property that their families have been fighting over for a hundred years. Nevada refuses to explain why, but Cord knows the bargain is in his favor. He just has one condition—she has to sleep in his bed every night for as long as their doomed marriage lasts. Nevada only wants to maintain her family’s legacy—and redeem herself for a wrong she did Cord years ago. But as she spends more time with her husband, she discovers something unexpected—a love so deep it takes her breath away.
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Available June 2013 from Berkley