A single father must face the past when the woman who left
him alone with their daughter returns to town, sparking a renewed attraction
and fears for his daughter’s future.
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Title: Ty’s Heart
Series: A California Cowboys Novel
Author: Selena Laurence
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: October 24, 2017
Length: 60,000 words
Blurb:
She's come back to steal his heart.
She's come back to steal his heart.
Ty Jenkins is a good man. For
five long years he's devoted his life to his young daughter, Katie, giving
everything he's got to make sure she won't miss the one thing she can't have--a
mother. When that very woman blows back into town, Ty's world is turned upside
down. He'd do anything to care for Katie, but caring for her gets complicated
when he still has feelings for the woman who abandoned them both.
Jodi Morgan has made a lot of
mistakes in her life, and the biggest one of all was giving up her infant
daughter the day she was born. But now she's back in Big Sur, California,
determined to be there for her girl however she can. What Jodi didn't count on
was the way she feels about Katie's father. Between his devotion to Katie and
his work-honed body, Ty is one hell of an attractive package.
As two parents begin a journey to do
what's best for their child, they rediscover the feelings they once had for one
another. Can Ty trust Jodi not to leave again? Has she come to be part of
Katie's future? Or will she steal his heart?
Excerpt:
Ty stood and watched her as she gazed out at the ocean beyond the railing of the deck. He remembered the first time he’d laid eyes on her almost six years ago. She’d been standing behind the counter of his aunt’s coffee shop, all that pale blonde hair piled in a mess on top of her head. Her cornflower-blue eyes—eyes he knew as well as his own now—sparkled when she smiled at customers, and he’d felt it immediately. As if a bolt of lightning had struck him, he’d wanted that girl. He’d wanted that sparkle and glow to be for him.
And for a brief time, it was.
But now, as he quietly watched her,
none of the sparkle was there anymore. None of the vibrancy that had been so
magnetic when they’d known each other earlier. No, Jodi was different. He could
see it in the set of her shoulders, the way she held her arms so tight against
her body. Then she turned and looked at him, and it was in her eyes. It was
breath stealing, the sorrow he saw there, but he steeled himself against it.
Closed himself off and let a layer of armor wind around his heart and his body.
Because no matter how sad she might be, she was here to upend his life, to try
to take the single most important thing he had, and even if it made her sad for
the rest of her life, he wasn’t about to give her what she wanted.
Katie wasn’t negotiable.
“You came,” she said, giving him a
small smile as she turned more fully, the thin embroidered cotton dress she wore
blowing around her thighs in the breeze.
Her hair was still that same shade
of platinum it had always been—so rare for an adult to be that blonde
naturally, but Jodi looked like the fae out of some Nordic fairy tale, all fair
skin, white-blonde hair, and pale blue eyes. She was tall at five ten, he was
taller at six two, and she was strong—long legs, wide shoulders, narrow
hips—but buxom as well, a Viking warrior princess.
He gave himself a little shake,
remembering that if she wasn’t exactly the enemy now, she sure as hell wasn’t
his friend.
“Surely you didn’t expect me to find out you were in town
and just ignore it?”
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About Selena
Laurence:
Selena Laurence is an award-winning and USA TODAY
bestselling author who loves Putting the Heat in Happily Ever After. Her
super sexy stories take place everywhere from rock concerts to family ranches,
and her books can be found around the world in four languages, at libraries,
bookstores, online, and in audio.
Selena
lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she can often be found at a
local coffee shop, hiking the trails, or watching soccer. At home Mr L, her
kids, "goldendoodle" and "demoncat" keep her busy trying to
corral chaos. A veteran Indie author, Selena also coaches writers through
her blog and workshops on turning #Passion2Profession.
If
you'd like to get to know her better, join Selena's reader/reviewer group on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/180909955632263/
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