Moonlighting
Starlight Grille ~ Book 3
A blast from the past, a ten-year old matchmaker with a valentine
wish, an omission, and a villainous man…a recipe for disaster? Or
love against all odds?
Tucker Benson’s decision to move to a new town, build a new
business, and protect his daughter does not include finding a
replacement for his cheating wife. But his ten-year old daughter has
other plans. And she’s found the one!
Mary Beth Walters’ life is up-to-the-brim full. When her high
school crush, now single father, moves to town, she is tempted. Only
problem is, he doesn’t recognize her. That could be a good thing.
Or end in trouble.
When Tucker discovers the secret Mary Beth holds close to her heart,
will love be enough to overcome broken trusts?
EXCERPT
The doorbell chimed. Mary Beth grabbed an aqua and pink mottled scarf
to offset the drab blue jeans and stark white of her sweater and
beelined down the stairs. Like a puppy, all gangly legs and lurching
moves, she raced toward the door to swing it wide. “Hey.” That
came out a little breathless. She tried to tamp down the panting from
her jog down the stairs. Never mind the stitch in her side after the
gobbled toast.
“Hey, yourself.” Possibly breathless worked for Tucker. His grin
widened to the width of the open doorway. His hair was tousled from
the chilled breeze off the ocean. His cheeks red, like he’d waited
in the winter sunshine for his watch to hit the half-hour mark.
She stepped past him onto her front porch and pulled the door shut.
“So, no Bunnie?”
“No Bunnie. Better this way.” He cupped her cheek and planted a
kiss. She was so needy and full of lust that her brain frizzled and
fried on the spot. The kiss was gentle and slowly sweet until
morphing into, oh yeah, a little bit naughty. She opened to him. His
teeth nipped and his tongue tangled with hers, as she pressed against
his solid body, wanting so much more. The more she’d
fantasized about since high school. The more that could happen
if she only had the courage to step back, grab his hand, and pull him
inside and up the stairs.
The slam of her neighbor’s door across the street filtered through
her brain in slow motion. But Tucker’s groan snapped her common
sense back into place. Sunday. On her front porch. For all to see.
She shoved against the chest she wanted to stay glued to, bit down on
her lip as the cold air replaced Tucker’s warmth, and sucked in a
deep breath to regain her equilibrium.
Mary Beth stepped back again. Not for her own sake, but for his. She
desperately wanted to stay in his arms, despite what the neighbors
might think, and fling her arms around his neck and murmur to hell
with lunch.
AUTHOR BIO
~ cottages to cabins ~ keep the home fires burning ~
A transplanted big city gal,
world-wide traveler, and foreign-service brat, who now lives in a
coastal Maine town, Delsora Lowe loves to write about small town
heroes from the cowboys and ranchers of Colorado to the game wardens
and lobstermen of Maine. Her work in the hospitality industry, rape
crisis, admissions, alumni relations, and women’s advocacy has
allowed her to interact on a daily basis with real life heroines and
heroes.
Lowe’s family visits to
Colorado are the inspiration for her Cowboys
of Mineral Springs series.
Between her daughter’s wedding and her son’s home on the coast of
Maine, she gathered plentiful ideas for the Starlight
Grille series, as well
as the Galway Cove
series, currently being written. And soon, thanks to a college
education in Vermont as inspiration, look for a holiday sweet romance
about saving a Vermont Inn.
Lowe
also publishes 5-Minute Romances in Woman’s World magazine.
She is a Published Author Network
(PAN) member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), a non-profit
group founded in 1980 and dedicated to writers of genre romance. She
is an active member of several writing chapters in Maine, Rhode
Island, New England, New Jersey, and Oregon, as well as on-line
industry groups related to various topics including writing for
Woman’s World, seasoned romance, contemporary western romance, and
New England Indie Writers.
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Oh those high school crushes--you always wonder if loved and lost is good, or if a second chance is better! Best wihes for you and your book!
ReplyDeleteThanks Babs - they are fun stories to write - those loved and lost, then given a second chance. Or unrequited love that never was, but wished for...that's the case for Marybeth who now gets her second chance :-)
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