Are they doomed to repeat the mistakes of their past?
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RISKING IT ALL
Hidden Falls #3
T.J. Kline
Released May 2nd, 2017
Avon Impulse
Andrew
McQuaid wasn't always the local playboy. Once upon a time, he wanted to spend
the rest of his life with one woman-Gia Mancuso. When he made a mistake and
lost her, he decided he wasn't meant to have a happy-ever-after. Now, Gia's
come back to town, with a baby in tow, and it might just mean a second chance
at forever, if he can convince her that he never stopped loving her.
Ten years after leaving, Gia finds herself back in Hidden Falls. Between
helping her ailing father save the family restaurant and taking care of the
baby her sister left on her doorstep, she doesn't have time for the man who
once broke her heart. But Andrew is all grown-up now, in every single way. And
the part of her that has always been his can't quite say no to his tempting
kisses.
Just when Gia begins to open her heart, a devastating secret emerges that
threatens to destroy her family and any future with Andrew. Are they doomed to
repeat the mistakes of their past or can Andrew convince Gia that she's always
been his one and only?
EXCERPT:
The
soft crunch of gravel jerked her upright as headlights bathed the interior of
her car in white light, blinding her. Reports of women being carjacked,
kidnapped, or murdered filled her mind, and she hurried to snap the buckle of
Bella’s seat again. Dropping the bottle, she lunged forward, attempting to
climb over the console into the driver’s seat to get the hell away from
whatever killer might be approaching her car.
It took only a few seconds to
realize how big a mistake she’d made.
Gia had always been well endowed,
but she’d never expected her curves to get her stuck partway between her front
and back seats. She wiggled, trying to twist sideways to make it easier to pull
her forward. Gripping the edge of the steering wheel, Gia used it for leverage,
tucking one knee under her as she tried to force herself through. It was no
use. She was hopelessly stuck, now unable to move forward or back. She was a
miserable excuse for a guardian and prayed her stupidity wasn’t about to end
with her and Bella on tomorrow’s news, murdered on the side of the highway,
mere minutes from their destination.
She craned her neck to see the flash
of red and blue lights washing through the back window for the car as a thin
white beam of light slashed through the window, into her eyes. She held up a
hand, trying to make out any of the features of who she prayed was really a
cop, even if it meant someone would witness her embarrassing predicament. The
back door opened and Gia heard a deep rumble of laughter.
“What brings you back to town, Gia?”
Gia closed her eyes, wishing she
could crawl under her car. How was it possible that after nearly ten years of
avoiding him, she was now caught in this position by the one man she never
wanted to see again, the same one who’d broken her stupidly naïve heart at
nineteen?
“Andrew McQuaid,” she muttered to
herself. He shone the light on her rear end, and irritation welled. “You think
instead of ogling my ass you might actually help me?”
She felt the hands that had carried
her to her first heights of ecstasy reach for either side of her hips. The same
hands she’d sworn would never touch her again after she found out about that
bastard’s cheating ways.
“Hey,” she squealed, trying to
squirm away from his touch, willing herself to ignore the way her heart leapt
into her throat. “What the hell are you doing?”
“Exactly what you asked me to do.
I’m helping you.”
“Not like that!” She swung a hand at
him, slapping her own butt in the process, but at least he let go of her.
“How exactly do you propose I help,
then?”
“I don’t know. You’re the cop.”
Andrew laughed, still leaning into
her car, bent over awkwardly behind her. “Honey, I really don’t see any other
way.”
She glared at him over her shoulder.
“Don’t call me that.”
“Fine.” Andrew moved into the car,
practically sitting in the back seat, and slid one hand through an opening by
her waist, in front of her bent knee. The other slid around her calf and
managed to pull it out from under her. “There. I’m going to tip your right hip
down, but you’re going to have to manage to twist your shoulders to fit… um…”
He searched for a polite term he could call her boobs. “… the girls through,”
he finished with a chuckle.
Gia felt the rush of heat flood her
face. “Let’s just get this over with.”
Andrew’s hands closed on her hips
again, practically cupping her right butt cheek in his palm. “Bend your right
knee and I’m going to pull on three. One… two… three.”
Gia managed to twist her body as
Andrew pulled her backward, and she slid through the space as if she’d never
been stuck at all. Andrew dropped into the seat, carrying her with him. Gia
landed in his lap with one of his muscular forearms under her breasts, the
other hand cupping her inner thigh, sending a blast of heat between her legs.
It was the worst reaction she could have ever imagine having.
Until she realized that hard ridge
beneath her rear wasn’t his gun.
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T. J.
Kline
was
bitten by the horse bug early and began training horses at fourteen—as well as
competing in rodeos and winning several rodeo queen competitions—but has always
known writing was her first love. She also writes under the name Tina
Klinesmith. In her spare time, she can be found spending as many hours as
possible laughing hysterically with her husband, teens, and their menagerie of
pets in Northern California. That is, when she isn't running around the
California Gold Country researching new stories.
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