Kentucky Rain (13 page)

Kentucky Heat
by Jan Scarbrough

Playboy Hank Brennan stopped caring about the family business years ago when his superhero stepbrother takes control. Hank can’t win at anything, let alone please his critical father who believes oil paint and canvas are poor substitutes for responsibility and hard work. But Hank is a talented painter with an artist’s soul. Who better to understand a down-on-his-luck, starving artist than another performer with the voice of an angel?

Raylynn Walker is a part-time country music singer at night and a horse trainer by day. She’s been wounded too, but doesn’t need to fix another lost soul. Yet she recognizes Hank’s talent and he sure turns her on. Is he really a jerk or is there more to Hank Brennan than anyone knows?

Downhome Crazy
by Cammie Eicher

As the only reporter in the small town of Fortuna, Ohio, Tessa McDonald hopes every phone call will be the big story that brings glory to both her and the radio station, WFRT. When Eugene, the town’s one goth/gangsta teen calls, she only goes to check out his supposedly gone-crazy mom to keep from disappointing him. But when some of Fortuna’s already colorful characters go waaay around the bend, she knows more help is needed.

Carson Hayes of the Ohio Bureau of Investigation returns to Fortuna to aid the local police after a 60-something shopkeeper disappears. While he searches through bank records and waits for a ransom call, he’s also rolling with the chief as the newly nutty are taken to the local psych ward. He’s thrilled to spend his nights with Tessa, despite the cranky cat she’s been guilted into sheltering, the morose appearances of Eugene, and her predilection for always being on the wrong end of a gun.

Holding Out for a Hero
by Jennifer Johnson

My name is Abigail Benton, and this is what my life has come to: babysitting after school hoodlums during the day and serving up artery-clogging breakfast food at night.

Are my parents getting their money’s worth for my college education? Doubtful.

Still, I’m determined to make the best of doing community service in inner-city Clavania. I’ve struck up a friendship with an intriguing, homeless man named Eli, who smells like melted caramel and spends most of his time sweeping the community center parking lot.

He's the first homeless person I had ever met who smelled so good. Come to think of it, Eli was the first homeless person I had ever met, period.

When tension between rival gangs heats up and I get caught in the middle, Eli is the one who comes to my rescue. I want to help him get off the streets; he just wants me to stay out of trouble and leave him alone.

Why am I so drawn to him? Why do I want to be involved in fixing his life when I so desperately need to straighten out my own?

Body Combat
by Ninnette Swann

Charles Whitaker is taking his fall from grace hard. Once the top architect in San Diego, his business partner cooked the books and ran off with all his earnings. When the money left, so did his wife. To help Charles re-focus his energy on the future, he's taken a Body Combat course. Only he can't focus on anything but the beautiful instructor, Sammy Logan.
Sammy doesn't date clients. Even if she did, she's sure they'd run in the opposite direction as soon as they found out that she has no money and spends all her time protecting her mother from her drunken father. Still, the well-built man in the third row catches her eye and won't let her go without a fight. When her father crashes his car, Sammy has nowhere to turn and runs smack dab into Charles Whitaker.
Together, they try to mend a twenty-five-year family rift, caused by greed and stubbornness, by proving that love is more powerful than money.

Coming Home
by Jessica Jarman

Angel Lake Series, Book One

Coming home for Gabe Monroe isn’t a joyous occasion. He returns to say goodbye to his father, and he stays to honor his father’s final request—take care of the family. He’s completely unprepared for the attraction he feels for his sister’s best friend and blames his grief when he gives into it. Gabe tries to put things right. Kate is practically family, and he promised his father he’d take care of her.  However, Gabe is pretty sure taking Kate hard and fast against any ready surface wasn’t what his dad had in mind.

Kate Pearson thought she was over her childhood crush on Gabe, but his return has all those feelings rushing back. Add in the toe-curling, mind-blowing sex…and Kate is well on her way beyond just a crush. Despite his constant meddling and insistence that they need to keep things platonic, he makes her tremble with desire and yearn for forever with him.

Even as Gabe begins to accept their blossoming relationship, Kate's past casts a shadow over their future as they realize he isn't the only one who’s come home.

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