The Long Road Home (24 page)
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Authors: H. D. Thomson
Tags: #romantic comedy, #road trip, #Contemporary, #Fiction, #Romance, #Contemporary Romance
“I’ll understand if you don’t want—”
He stilled her protest with a finger against her lips. “Shh—don’t even say it.” His dark and sober eyes held her captive. “Nothing’s changed. It’s a scratch. Nothing more.”
She flinched as his hand grazed her thigh. Tears welled in her eyes and she glanced down at the pink scars. “Are you blind!”
He cupped her chin and forced her to look at him. “No. Not anymore. What I see is what I’ve always wanted.”
Mesmerized by the love and adoration radiating from his eyes, Clarisse’s heart blossomed, not from pleasure or desire, but from something far more. Love. It was deeper, more binding than before.
“When I think we wasted three years, I get so angry...” The fire in his eyes singed her soul. “I’ll never let you go again. Ever. I made my mistake the once, but never again. Say you’ll marry me?”
It hit her that John didn’t care, that he couldn’t see her with dispassionate eyes. He loved her, disfigurement and all. In wonder, she caressed his cheek with her palm. If she hadn’t conquered feelings of self-doubt, misplaced pride and the terror of flying, she would have lost him.
“Oh, y-yes.” Her voice cracked with emotion. “I don’t know what I did to deserve you, but I’m not fool enough to start asking questions. I love you.”
“I always have,” John breathed before capturing her lips in a soul-wrenching kiss.
Burying her hands in his thick, raven hair, she shivered as a kaleidoscope of feelings—wonder, joy and desire—embraced her. She might have taken a couple of detours, some rocky and perilous and some smooth and uneventful, but she had finally found the road home.
The End
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Winner of the Ready-Set-Go Peninsula RWA Contest
Finalist in the Suzannah North Louisiana RWA Contest
1st place in Peninsula RWA Chapter’s contest.
Jake Preston is on borrowed time. If he doesn’t stumble upon a miracle and soon, he’ll end up dead. And even if he does, he still might end up dead with a clever killer hounding his heels. He believes that the one miracle and antidote to save him is in Margot Davenport’s house, across the country and miles away from Boston. Somewhere locked in her home is the key to reversing an experiment that is killing him with each breath he takes.
Margot doesn’t particularly care if she ends up dead. She’s lost everything she’s ever cared for. A divorce and the loss of her job as a corporate lawyer has left her with little faith in herself or in anyone else. Most importantly, she’s lost the one person on this earth she’s looked up to and cherished–her brother, Johnny. His death in a car accident has devastated her, and she can’t find the willpower to pull herself from the chasm she’s fallen into. Her only solace is at the bottom of a wineglass. Having moved back to the small town in northern Arizona where she was raised, she’s made a point of isolating herself both mentally and physically from everyone other than a few chosen friends. Little does she know that her life is going to explode into chaos.
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1st place in Beacon Contest under the Paranormal Category.
1st place in the Emily West Houston Chapter RWA Contest – Paranormal Category
Honorable Mention from On the Far Side Contest from the Fantasy Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter of RWA
Finalist in First Coast Romance Writers Unpublished Beacon Contest
John Davenport wakes from a car accident with a dead man beside him and a duffle bag in the back seat with over one hundred thousand dollars in cash and a loaded gun. He has no memory of his past or how he got there. His only clues are a photo with the address of a shelter and a driver’s license with the name of Clark Kent. They lead him to Boston, but once there, he’s left with more questions and a sense of eminent danger.
But nothing prepares him for the phenomena he finds within himself. His hearing’s more acute than any animal, his strength beyond anything human. Stranger still, he shares the same alias as the renowned Superman.
Katherine Spalding knows she’s one of the lucky ones. Born with money and looks, raised and educated among Boston’s elite, she has the respect and admiration of friends and the community. But her luck’s about to turn to chaos when a tall, gorgeous man with the most incredible gray eyes stumbles into her life. Katherine doesn’t know what to make of him. He claims he’s Clark Kent. But is he saint or sinner, hero or villain or … just plain crazy? Is she willing to find out, even at the risk of her life?
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1st place in the CTRW Connections Contest
Someone wants Skye Hunter’s son, Tyler, and they’re willing to kill to get him. On the run for her life, Skye turns to the only person she believes can help her—a complete stranger with a shared past.
David Bishop thinks Skye is crazy. But when he realizes she has the same strange phenomenon inside her body that he does—the ability to move objects with her mind, David is forced to question his life, his childhood and his father’s motives. Can these two lost souls uncover the mystery of their telekinetic powers and save Tyler and themselves in the process?
PROTECTING KATIE
Morgan Stone will do anything to keep his daughter, Katie. But would he steal? Yes. Lie? Absolutely. Cheat? Most definitely.
When Jeff, Katie’s biological father, threatens to file for paternity, Morgan, blind to anything but the need to protect Katie, strikes back with photographs of Jeff with one woman while engaged to another. With evidence of his ex-partner’s infidelity, he meets Jeff’s fiancée, Kristen St. John. In less than thirty seconds, he destroys her dreams with damning photographs of Jeff in the arms of another woman.
Can Kristin believe the evidence of her fiancés’ infidelity? Caught in the middle of a battle between two men, Kristin doesn’t know who to believe or trust, especially her heart when it comes to Morgan. She finds herself falling for this fierce, loyal man. But when it comes to loving Kristen, will Morgan find it within himself to give up everything, even Katie?
AUTHOR BIO
H. D. Thomson moved from Ontario, Canada as a teenager to the heat of Arizona where she graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in accounting. After working in the corporate world as an accountant, H. D. changed her focus to one of her passions-books. She owned and operated an online bookstore for several years and then started the company, Bella Media Management. The company specializes in web sites, video trailers, ebook conversion and promotional resources for authors and small businesses. When she is not heading her company, she is following her first love-writing. You can learn more about the author at
H. D. Thomson.
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