I will be sharing about a book I read and loved. This book is by Jessie Evans and it is in her Lonesome Point, Texas Series, and is called Chaps and Chances.
I want to share with you an excerpt from the book:
About Jessie Evans
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jessie Evans,
gave up a career as an international woman of mystery to write the sexy,
contemporary Southern romances she loves to read.
She's married to the man of her dreams, and together they're
raising a few adorable, mischievous children in a cottage in the jungle. She
grew up in rural Arkansas, spending summers running wild, being chewed by
chiggers, and now appreciates her home in a chigger-free part of the world even
more.
When she's not writing, Jessie enjoys playing her dulcimer
(badly), sewing the worlds ugliest quilts to give to her friends, going for
bike rides with her house full of boys, and drifting in and out on the waves,
feeling thankful for sun, surf, and lovely people to share them with.
Stalker Links
http://bit.ly/JessieEvansGoodreadsI want to share with you an excerpt from the book:
SUSPENSEFUL EXCERPT
Quiet. Calm. Don’t breathe. Don’t
think. Don’t move. Play dead, Layla. You can do that.
You’ve been half-dead for years.
Layla squeezed her eyes shut and curled
into a tighter ball inside the absolute blackness of the storage ottoman in the
corner of Grayson and Reece’s bedroom. She’d dismissed the closet and
underneath the bed as too predictable to be good hiding places. At the last
moment, just as footsteps plodded slowly up the stairs, she’d lowered herself
into the hollow ottoman and pulled the heavy leather lid on top.
Now, there was nothing but to keep
quiet and pray.
Pray that it wasn’t Wayne’s boots
thumping on the wooden floor in the hall, pray that this was a thief who would
take her valuables and go away, and pray that Cole didn’t get hurt when he came
rushing to her rescue.
She should never have called him. She
shouldn’t have put him in danger, no matter how terrified she was.
Please, God, please let Cole be okay.
Please let this be anyone other than Wayne.
A moment later, her husband’s deep
voice shattered the middle-of-the-night silence, proving no one was listening
to her prayers. “I know you’re here, Layla. And I know your brother isn’t. So
why don’t you come out and talk to me, baby girl. I think we’ve got a lot to go
over, don’t you?”
Layla bit down hard on her bottom lip,
concentrating on the pain, fighting the tremor that rocked through her body in
response to hearing her husband’s voice for the first time in months. She’d
started to forget how easily he could frighten her, the way all it took was a
few words and a certain tone of voice to let her know she was in trouble.
That tone thickened his words as he
spoke again, making it clear how much he itched to get his hands on her, his
fists into her, his rage washing over her like a flood of poison she couldn’t
escape.
“I know what you did, baby.” Wayne’s
words were followed by a low laugh that transformed into a prolonged, racking
cough.
Happy Reading!
Melissa
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