COMING FRIDAY 7 PM PST. LEIGH DUNCAN AUTHOR OF: A COUTRY WEDDING

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LEIGH DUNCAN

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Country music star Bradley Suttons is all set to marry his Hollywood actress girlfriend. There’s just one thing: he’s forgotten he’s already married. When he was thirteen years old, he and his childhood best friend, Sarah Standor, held a makeshift wedding ceremony in his barn. Their promise? To always be there for one another. Their vows? Not exactly legally binding.
When Bradley visits the small town where he grew up, he finds Sarah running a ranch for rescue horses…and he finally finds his inspiration again, writing new music from the heart. Even as Sarah helps him prepare for his upcoming country wedding, they both begin to wonder if their past holds the key to their future.




In this scene, fresh from his win at the Grammy’s Bradley Suttons and his girlfriend Catherine are being interviewed on national television, when Catherine blurts out some exciting news:

“You discovered Bradley, didn’t you?” The consummate morning show host, Stan dove straight into the meat of the interview. “I mean, he was already well known in Nashville. But you brought him to Los Angeles and got him a recording deal.”

Not sure he liked where Stan was headed, Bradley felt his shoulders stiffen. Sure, things had begun to change for him once he and Catherine started seeing each other. Her name had opened a few doors. But it had been his talent that had propelled him upward and gotten him where he was today.

“I introduced him to a few people,” Catherine admitted. She slipped her perfectly manicured fingers over his knee and stared deeply into his eyes. “But he’s a pretty talented guy. He got himself a recording deal.” 

Undaunted, the talk show host smoothly changed subjects. “And the two of you have been inseparable ever since?”

The melodic tones of Catherine’s laugh echoed through the small space. “I think the first time I heard Bradley sing—” emotion flickered in her eyes for an all-too-brief moment before she turned to face Stan, “—I fell in love with him.”

As if he sensed a story, Stan leaned forward. “Are you saying the two of you might have some news for us one day?”

“We like to keep our private lives private.” Bradley straightened. In rehearsals, Stan had offered repeated assurances that his guests’ personal lives would remain off-limits. Yet less than five minutes into the interview, the host was already prying into matters Bradley and Catherine had decided they’d rather not have aired on national TV. He looked to Catherine for support.

“We’re engaged to be married,” his bride-to-be blurted.

Despite the countless stage appearances and thousand-and-one coaching sessions where he’d learned to keep a carefully crafted facade in place, Bradley couldn’t even begin to hide his surprise. He and Catherine had talked about this. They’d decided to keep the depth of their feelings for one another hidden from their adoring—but demanding—fans who’d insist on knowing every detail of their wedding plans.



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Fourth-generation cattleman Luke Parker looks into his childless future and wonders what will become of the ranch he’s worked so hard to preserve. 

Sarah Magarity’s job with the Department of Children and Family Services has exposed her to the worst side of parenting. So much so that the altruistic redhead doubts she’ll ever have children of her own.

The solution to both their problems might be a five-year-old boy abandoned on DCF’s doorstep just days before Christmas, but only if the cowboy can convince a jaded social worker that he’s good father material on a two-week cattle drive through Florida’s version of the Old West.


This scene takes place in Sarah’s DCF office, where she delivers sad news to rancher Ty Parker and is determined to get him to take responsibility for his little boy.  
Sarah Magarity’s name hung outside a workspace slightly larger than the rest. Flowers perfumed her empty office, and he bent over pink blossoms whose fragrance reminded him of tropical islands and swaying palm fronds. He inhaled, appreciating the change from the odors of horse and cow, hay and sweat that usually filled his days. He glanced around, hoping to get a better sense of the woman who’d insisted on the meeting, but she didn’t keep photographs on her desk. Rolling his hat brim through his hands, he settled onto a vacant chair and tried without success to block out the incessant ringing of telephones.
At last, he glanced into the corridor in time to catch sight of a slender foot wearing an open-toed shoe. The footwear was completely impractical, but it was pretty, and as its owner appeared in the doorway, his gaze rose past elegant ankles and trim calves to a loose-fitting business suit that effectively camouflaged womanly curves. He stood, extending a hand as he let his gaze wander Sarah Magarity’s face. The hazel eyes that met his filled with unexpected emotion when her warm hand pressed into his grasp.
She swallowed visibly. “Mr. Parker, I know we didn’t part under the best of circumstances last time, but I appreciate your coming in today. Please, take a seat.”
“Most folks call me Luke.” He remained on his feet until she was settled behind her desk.
“And I’m Sarah.” She smiled one of those vague smiles people give when their thoughts are somewhere else.
Still wondering why she had demanded his presence, Luke waited while she opened a blue-edged folder and flipped through several official-looking documents.
“Mr. Parker—Luke,” she said, looking up from the papers. “You were married to Millicent Gage, weren’t you?”
“Millie?” Luke frowned. As far as expected topics of conversation went, his ex-wife was pretty far down on the list. He hadn’t seen the woman in nearly six years, hadn’t given her more than an occasional thought in the past two or three. He met Sarah’s eyes. The concern he read there made him uneasy enough that he shifted in his chair.
“Luke,” she said softly. “I’m afraid I have some sad news.”
Sarah paused long enough for his mind to form a hundred different questions. Across from him, she drew in a breath so deep it made her chest swell.
“I’m very sorry to have to tell you that your ex-wife, Millicent, passed away a few months ago.”
Millie. Dead?
Luke shook his head, trying to wrap his thoughts around the idea that the woman who’d been his childhood sweetheart was gone.
“How? Where?” he managed.
“In New York. Apparently, she was mugged.”
Nodding to himself, Luke absorbed this piece of news. Millie’s hunger for more than a quiet life on the Circle P had driven them apart. He’d always hoped that she’d found someone else. Someone who would give her a brick house in the city, like the one she’d wanted him to buy. He brushed his hand over his face. Moisture had gathered in his eyes. He wiped it away and sighed.
Rising, he began, “Ms. Magarity…”
“Sarah, please,” she interrupted.
He tried again. “Sarah. If that’s why you called me here, you could have delivered that news over the phone and saved both of us some trouble.”
“No, I couldn’t.”
“Why not? Millie walked out of my life a long time ago. I’m sorry she passed on, but it doesn’t make sense that I’d have to come here so you could tell me about it.”
He shook his head, cursing his foolishness for even considering that Sarah Magarity might be interested in him. Whatever he’d been thinking about her, he’d been wrong. The woman was so argumentative she couldn’t even deliver the news about his ex-wife without disagreeing with him.
Behind her desk, Sarah stood. Her soft features hardened. “Aren’t you even going to ask about your son?” she demanded harshly.
“My… What?” Luke’s knees bent. His backside hit the chair again, this time hard enough to hurt.



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