Talented and witty portrait artist Serena
MacQuire is successful in everything but love. Her gift for capturing people on
canvas is rivalled only by her fiery and legendary temper. A tragedy from the
past keeps her heart securely locked away, preventing any man from getting
close enough to claim it.
But Seamus Cleary isn’t just any man. After he
left his professional football career to become a veterinarian, his bitter wife
ended their marriage. Now, as he starts his life over in a new town, love is
the last thing he's looking for. The more he tends to Serena’s horses, though,
the more he realizes her own heart needs tender care and healing as well.
Will he be the man who finally unlocks and
claims her heart?
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Their
eyes met and Seamus registered the silent “O” of surprise on her mouth.
"I'm
sorry I startled you," he said, drawn to her as an errant moth would be to
a ghost of moonlight. "Addie told me you were out here."
Serena
reached over to her sketchpad, open at her feet, and closed it with a flick of
her toe. He was rewarded with a lengthy view of thigh as she stretched.
"Working?"
"Doodling,
mostly. I wanted to do some preliminary sketches for a commission I have."
"Mind
if I sit?" he asked, and without waiting for an answer, did.
When
he reached for the pad and said, "May I?" she shot her bare foot on
top of it.
"Sorry."
Serena reached over and grabbed the book. When it was safely tucked behind her
back, braced against the tree, she added, "I'm a little schizoid where my
work is concerned. I don’t let people see it when it’s in the planning or
beginning stages."
He
looked across at her, lifted one brow slightly, then glanced around. "This
is nice," he said. "Quiet. Peaceful."
"Private.”
A
fist of pure desire punched him in the stomach, the muscles contracting in
response to the challenge in her eyes.
"Was
there something you needed to see me about?"
He
considered her again, before replying. For someone so young she could act as
regally as the most aged dowager.
And
she was young; much younger than he was. It wouldn't do to start anything with
her. Besides, she was a client. He had to keep it professional.
But
dammit, those eyes speared right through him, impaling him with their beauty,
and were hard to ignore. As was the gentle swell and shift of her breasts with
each breath beneath her barely modest halter top. And her legs, well, just
forget about those. Legs like that
were destined to be his downfall.
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About the Author
Peggy Jaeger is a
contemporary romance writer who writes about strong women, the families who
support them, and the men who can’t live without them.
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there
is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or
ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving,
Peggy brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling
rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever
after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters,
brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their
way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that lonely
child. Tying into her love of families, her children's book, THE KINDNESS TALES, was
illustrated by her artist mother-in-law.
Peggy holds a master's degree in Nursing Administration and first found
publication with several articles she authored on Alzheimer's Disease during
her time running an Alzheimer's in-patient care unit during the 1990s. In 2013, she placed first in two categories in the Dixie Kane Memorial Contest:
Single Title Contemporary Romance and Short/Long Contemporary Romance. In 2017 she came in 3rd in the New England Reader's Choice contest for A KISS
UNDER THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS and is a finalist in the 2017 STILETTO contest for
the same title. A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, she is a member of RWA and her
local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
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Sweetie -thanks so much for the book blast and for introducing me to your readers and fans!!!!
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