Dr. Alex Campbell has
an agenda—finish his contract to provide medical services in Maine, pay off his
medical school debt, and head back to his real life in San Diego. But when he
meets Julia, all his carefully laid plans are put in jeopardy.
Julia Stewart, Lobster
Cove’s high school principal, swears she’ll never let another man drag her away
from the home she loves. Her aging parents need her, and the Cove is where she
wants to raise her daughter. When her mother’s illness brings her and the big
city doctor closer together, panic sets in. Her marriage taught her men don’t
stay.
Can she put aside the
heartaches of the past and trust Alex enough to accept the love he’s offering?
Or will her fear of abandonment mean she’ll send him away forever?
Excerpt:
They drank their tea in silence, but the
silence didn’t feel awkward. Julia felt soothed, the stress slowly leaving her
body. Perhaps her grandmother had been onto something. The tea seemed to be
working.
She finished the last of it and set down
the cup. “I should be going. I left Ava with Tracy, and she’s probably hungry
by now.”
Julia got to her feet and headed to the
front door, with Alex following her. “Thanks for the tea, and for listening. I
guess I needed both today.”
“Anytime. Seriously, Julia, anytime you
need to talk, about anything, give me a call.”
She wondered if he was speaking as a
doctor, as a friend, or as a man. Which one did she want him to be?
“Thank you.”
“I’ll try to keep an eye out for your
folks, see if there’s anything I can do for them.”
She was touched by his offer. “I really
appreciate that, but I know how busy you are.”
He waved away her concern. “It’s no big
deal. I appreciate my grandmother’s neighbors checking in on her, and I’d be
happy to do the same.”
He really did understand how she felt. “In
that case, thank you.”
She opened the front door and stepped
outside. Turning to Alex, she smiled. His thick hair had begun to dry, and the
dark strands gleamed in the spring sunshine. Her breath caught in her throat at
his beauty.
“Bye, Alex.”
“Bye. Take care.”
Julia hurried down the steps and across the
lawn to her car. An appreciation for his looks was as far she could take any
relationship with him. Her life was too complicated, too full already. And she
would never get involved with a man who planned to leave Lobster Cove in only a
few more months.
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When Jana Richards read her first romance
novel, she immediately knew two things: she had to commit the stories running
through her head to paper, and they had to end with a happily ever after. She
also knew she’d found what she was meant to do. Since then she’s never met a
romance genre she didn’t like. She writes contemporary romance, romantic
suspense, and historical romance set in World War Two, in lengths ranging from
short story to full length novel. Just for fun, she throws in generous helpings
of humor, and the occasional dash of the paranormal. Her paranormal romantic
suspense “Seeing Things” was a 2008 EPPIE finalist.
In her life away from writing, Jana is an
accountant/admin assistant, a mother to two grown daughters, and a wife to her
husband Warren. She enjoys golf, yoga, movies, concerts, travel and reading,
not necessarily in that order. She and her husband live in Winnipeg, Canada
with their Pug/Terrier cross Lou and several unnamed goldfish. She loves to
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