Kentucky Groom (17 page)

Authors: Jan Scarbrough

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BOOK: Kentucky Groom

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Camden Brennan owes the man who adopted him a lot. Now CEO of his father’s heavy equipment company, Cam stands to win a million dollar contract-if he can convince eccentric Ray Elliott to accept his bid. Too worried about the behavior of his only daughter to concentrate on negotiations, the road construction magnate makes it clear to Cam that he’ll show his gratitude to any man who marries his daughter and takes her off his hands.

Realizing if he captures the hand of the wayward Miss Aimee Elliott, he’ll also capture the biggest deal of his life, Cam sets out to do just that. Trouble is, six years earlier, their summertime fling ended badly. Aimee is the only woman who’s ever rejected him, and the only woman Cam has ever loved.

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Ladies of Legend: Finding Home
by Janet Eaves, Magdalena Scott, Maddie James and Jan Scarbrough

What happens when four writers who love romance get together and create a town, the people who live in it, and the stories of those people’s lives? You get Legend, Tennessee — where four women from different backgrounds find purpose, love and their future in a town intent on preserving its past.

Ladies of Legend: Finding Home is an anthology including four novellas:

Claiming the Legend
by Janet Eaves
... Lilly Peach is running from something so frightening it finally takes a whole town to cover her back.

Midnight in Legend, TN
by Magdalena Scott
... Lovely Midnight Shelby finds Legend on the Internet after becoming tired of being one of her now ex-husband’s “beautiful things.”

Bed, Breakfast, and You
by Maddie James
... Suzie Schul finds home only when the “fling” she had many months earlier shows up with a plan on her B&B doorstep.

The Reunion Game
by Jan Scarbrough
... Plain Jane Smith reunites with her long lost love by playing a game of “bait and switch” with her famous twin sister.

Beauty and the Beast: A Ladies of Legend Novella
by Janet Eaves

Special Agent Polly Chapman has multiple identities... She is known to many as a savior. To others she is a killing machine. But all who know her, or think they know her, believe her untouchable.

Until she’s injured.

Now the man sent to piece her back together when “The Agency” considers her broken has only two choices— Catcher Stevens must fix her, or kill her.

Harvest Moon: A Ladies of Legend Novella
by Janet Eaves

After her sadistic husband is dead, Winifred Butler believes herself finally free of his horror. But he continues to torment her from the grave as his secrets and lies, treason and terror, bring Agent Tom Green to her door. She is as determined to keep her past a secret as Tom is committed to bringing her secrets to light. Only one of them can win. So both must fight the attraction to the other, knowing they have everything to lose...

Murder on the Mountain: A Ladies of Legend Novel
by Maddie James

In the two long years since her Tennessee state trooper husband’s murder, Kate Carpenter thinks she’s coped with his death, although everyone in Legend, Tennessee tells her she hasn’t. She can’t see what the problem is, really. She has her parents, and her best friend Patti Jo, and her students. What else could a twenty-nine year old woman want?

A man, Patti Jo keeps telling her.

Sent to Kate’s classroom on an investigation, ATF Special Agent Mike Lehmann uses his drug prevention training as his cover. His mission? To find out what Kate knows about her husband’s “death.” Recent reports indicate he is alive and that he faked his death because of his involvement in a drug-running operation. Mike’s task is to expose Carpenter, and if she’s involved, Kate.

And he’ll stop at nothing to get the answers he seeks.

The Christmas Gift: A Legendary Christmas Novella
by Janet Eaves

Christina Montgomery dreads another Christmas with the questions about her soldier husband, Johnny, hanging over her and her daughter’s heads. She believes he died with his small sniper squadron a little over two years earlier, even though his was the only body unaccounted for. The Marine Corp has indicated they are leaning towards calling Johnny a defector. There are even a few Legend locals who believe it, too. This is something Christina refuses to consider. Until one snowy evening, two weeks before Christmas, a man looking very much like Johnny arrives at her Tennessee farm with no idea of who he is.

Stunned, confused, Christina doesn’t know what to do with him. Is this man’s sudden appearance a Christmas miracle? Or is it Christina’s worst nightmare come true?

Christmas Collision: A Legendary Christmas Novella
by Magdalena Scott

Rebecca Mayfield,
the
divorce lawyer in New York City, doesn’t believe in happily ever after. Why would she? Her beloved husband and law partner died of a heart attack a couple of years ago, and she spends every day of her lucrative work life ending someone’s marriage.

Her friend and former client, Midnight Shelby McClain, invites Rebecca to her new “hometown” of Legend, Tennessee for the holiday. Small town Christmas—probably incredibly hokey. But Legend worked some magic in Midnight’s life. What might be there for Rebecca?

Her rental car slides off the icy road and is stuck in a ditch. She hikes through the dark in the deep snow toward the only light she can see…from a little cabin on the mountain.

David keeps a vigil each Christmas Eve in a little weekend cabin on the mountain outside Legend. He needs this time alone—away from his high stress life in Knoxville. He does
not
appreciate the interruption of having to take care of yet another lost soul—no matter how cute and spicy the package it’s wrapped in.

The power goes off, but the sparks continue to fly between these two strangers… There’s something magical about this cabin. Maybe this is the Christmas to find love—and a new beginning—in Legend, Tennessee.

Home for the Holidays: A Legendary Christmas Novella
by Maddie James

The last thing Chelly Schul wants is to go home for the holidays. She left her hometown of Legend, Tennessee on a wing and a prayer two years earlier and hasn’t returned. Her leaving humiliated her entire family, particularly her sister Suzie, since she ran off with Suzie’s (almost-ex) husband.

Legend Police Officer Matt Branson values being alone. Even during the holidays, he enjoys the solitude. Dubbed the town hermit, he tells himself he prefers his “cave” to socializing. His friends say he still pines after that lost love…although he begs to differ.

All that changes the snowy day he pulls over the older model sedan heading into Legend. His gut slams against his backbone as Chelly rolls down the car window and looks up into his eyes.

His high-school sweetheart is back in town—the woman who sent him into his cave in the first place.

Santa’s Kiss: A Legendary Christmas Novella
by Jan Scarbrough

Actress Dawn Smith’s world is crumbling. She’s always lived on the edge, seeking thrills, making herself into someone different. That’s why her success in Hollywood came so easily for a small town girl from Legend, Tennessee. But things have changed. Dawn needs to get away from the bright lights, but it’s Christmastime and that has always meant going home to family. She can’t face family this year.

Clint Roberts, former high school football hero and current car dealership owner, is a popular fixture in Legend. Affable and fun-loving, the bachelor is everyone’s best buddy. Most people know about his infatuation for one-time Legend girl, now superstar Dawn Smith.

Dawn needs someone to turn to, but she’s rejected her family. When Clint shows up on her doorstep in a snowstorm dressed as Santa bearing gifts and food, she welcomes him. Will their night of lovemaking bring Dawn more heartache or can Clint convince the actress that it’s time for her to come home for good?

Where Her Heart Is: A Ladies of Legend Novel
by Magdalena Scott

Two years ago, Betsy McClain gave up on her husband and her hometown. She packed up her baby daughter and moved to the City. Now she’s temporarily back in Legend, Tennessee. But when Betsy agreed to this house-sitting job, she didn’t know her favorite room was being renovated, or that her handsome almost-ex-husband was the carpenter.

After his wife and baby left him, Mike McClain was forced to grow up. Now he considers himself Mr. Responsibility. LizBeth Ann soon falls in love with her big handsome daddy, who takes her for picnics and is her “date” for little girl tea parties. But though Betsy, with her big blue eyes and cascades of golden blonde hair, looks like an angel, she seems determined to treat him like the devil. How can they let go of the past so the little family can have a future?

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