Undone (A Country Roads Novel) (46 page)
A Barefoot Bay Novel
When running is all you’ve ever known…
Caught between fight and flight, Zoe Tamarin has always picked flight. Since she was rescued from a nightmare childhood by her great-aunt Pasha, they’ve been on the move, never staying in one place long enough to risk exposing their precarious past. But now that they’ve reached the sun-baked shores of Barefoot Bay, Zoe may have to stay and fight—for her aunt’s life…and for a love she ran from years before.
Sometimes the bravest act of all is to
stand still
.
Oliver Bradbury came to Florida to start over, as both a doctor and a father to his eight-year-old son. He never expected life to hand him a second chance with the woman he lost years ago—but one look at Zoe Tamarin and he knows he’ll do whatever it takes to prove that this time, he can be the man she needs. But when demands of family and friendship threaten to shatter their rekindled passion, Oliver must heal Zoe’s lifelong wounds with more than hot kisses…but will that be enough to keep her from flying off with his heart?
First he fought for his country. Now he’ll fight for her.
Two years after losing her husband in Afghanistan, Carly Lowry has rebuilt her life in Tallgrass, Oklahoma. She has a job she loves teaching third grade and the best friends in the world: fellow military wives who understand what it means to love a man in uniform. She’s comfortable and content…until she meets a ruggedly handsome stranger who rekindles desires Carly isn’t quite sure she’s ready to feel.
Staff Sergeant Dane Clark wanted to have a loving family, a twenty-year Army stint, and then a low-key civilian career. But the paratrooper’s plans were derailed by a mission gone wrong. Struggling to adjust to his new life, he finds comfort in the wide open spaces of Tallgrass—and in the unexpected attention of sweet, lovely Carly. She is the one person who makes him believe life is worth living. But when Carly discovers he’s been hiding the real reason he’s come to Tallgrass, will Dane be able to convince her he is the hero she needs?
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Contents
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Short Fuses and a Whole Lot of Sparks
Chapter Two: Find the Beat Again
Chapter Three: A Harlot at the Funeral Home
Chapter Four: One of the Gals
Chapter Five: Turning Up the Heat
Chapter Six: Free Falling
Chapter Seven: Staking a Claim
Chapter Eight: The Ugly Underwear Theory
Chapter Nine: The Case of the Disappearing Bra
Chapter Ten: Coming Up for Air
Chapter Eleven: Trials and Tribulations
Chapter Twelve: The Power of Patience and a Kiss Good Night
Chapter Thirteen: A Stuffed Elephant and a Scheming Weasel
Chapter Fourteen: Shake It for Me Girl
Chapter Fifteen: Socks, Sunrises, and Sex…Lots of It
Chapter Sixteen: Good Enough
Chapter Seventeen: Why Don’t You Stay…Forever
Chapter Eighteen: Above and Beyond
Chapter Nineteen: A Calling, Not a Choice
Chapter Twenty: Broken Promises and Broken Hearts
Chapter Twenty-One: This Life Would Kill Me If I Didn’t Have You
Epilogue: The End and the Beginning
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Shannon Richard
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