Here on Friday Author of:
Tammy L. Bailey
Grace Evans is steadily
picking up the pieces of everyone else’s life. So, when her younger sister
decides to turn into a runaway bride just four weeks before the wedding, Grace,
drops everything to chase after her and bring her back home. Only, when the
trail leads to Mistletoe, Washington, she finds herself at the mercy of the
town’s most handsome and emotionally unavailable bachelor.
Ex-Army officer, Ayden McCabe, has three creeds in life: never make the first
move, never fall in love, and never take anyone to Mistletoe’s Christmas Dance.
Wanting nothing more than to keep his matchmaking sister from meddling in his
personal life, he agrees to help Grace if she agrees to play his girlfriend.
Too brunette and meek for his taste, Ayden believes Grace can’t tempt him
enough to break any of his creeds. He could not be more wrong.
Ayden downed the rest of his beer,
unsure whether what he was about to do was a brilliant idea or one drastic and
tragic mistake. He knew nothing about Grace Evans except that she was
uncommonly pretty with perhaps more freckles on her small nose than most women
he knew. She also appeared a bit unorganized and seemed to carry the weight of
the world on her small shoulders. He had no doubt most of that world didn’t
even belong to her.
However, she was nice and didn’t seem
to want anything from him except a room. As he planned his next move, she
exited the bathroom behind Rachel, her fine features perplexed and pinched into
careful deliberation. At least she didn’t head straight for the exit; she
ambled toward their booth.
When she sat down, she tucked a wisp
of dark shoulder-length hair behind an ear, a nervous habit he found innocent
and sensual at the same time. Not that he liked to memorize a woman’s
attributes; he did find her deep hazel eyes intriguing, especially when she
narrowed them in serious thought.
“I guess I was wrong about you. You
are very popular around here,” she said, peeking up from her timidity.
He chuckled and sank against the
cushioned seat, believing Grace Evans presented him with more problems than he
was ready to handle. Yet, he knew she awarded him a solution to at least one of
them. On a gamble, he shifted forward and drew out the flyer he’d ripped off the
wooden post a few feet from them.
On the table before her, he flattened
out the edge and tapped the center where his face lay wrinkled and distorted.
“Not that I agree one should try and
find someone who has voluntarily disappeared, but I want to propose a scheme of
sorts. I can help you find your sister, but I need something from you in
exchange.”
She glanced up, her glittering eyes
narrowing to distrusting slits in the muted lamp light. He thought about
recanting his thoughts, convinced no one would ever believe she’d caught his
attention, for he preferred them taller, a little vain, and more liberated.
This girl, on the other hand, barely
cleared his chin, possessed not one conceited bone in her small body, and
appeared, at present, as cautious and jittery as a baby rabbit ready to bolt.
He waited for the displeasure of such a woman to sink into his gut, causing him
to change his mind. When, after a few moments of glancing at her wondrous
brown-hazel eyes, his body reacted more with temptation than reluctance.
“You need me, Grace. I can see it. I
can feel it. And I can help you.”
IN MISTLETOE:
I'm a
LEO wife, mother, and third-generation veteran.
I have been writing for thirteen years. My debut novel, LORD BACHELOR, earned
second place in The Heart of Excellence, Reader’s Choice Award in 2016. This
novel was also featured in InD'tale Magazine for receiving a Crowned Heart
Review (4.5 stars). Although I enjoy the contemporary romance genre, my first
love is historical romance. There's just something about a man in a pair of
Hessian boots.
When I'm not writing, I'm spending time with my husband and two boys, ages 13
and 11. Without their sacrifice and understanding, I would have never been able
to pursue my passion of writing or my accomplishment of becoming a published
author.
No matter what I write and read, there ALWAYS has to be a happy ending.
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