Killed in a one car wreck Thomas Cash (TC) Riley is given one last chance to redeem himself. With the help of a lonely little girl and a brash young boy, can TC find a way to bring two damaged people together, remember his past and save his soul? And can he do it all as a cat?
Thomas Cash (TC) Riley is mad, bad and –dead. Killed in a one car wreck the twenty-nine-year old playboy is given one last chance to redeem himself for living a selfish, unfulfilled life and to determine his soul’s final destination.
To help his young daughter recover from the loss of her mother, Daniel Bishop, a widower who dislikes the country and is allergic to anything with fur, has moved back to his wife’s rural hometown to be close to her large family.
Katherine Sinclair, the local veterinarian and the single mother of an adventurous ten-year old son, is wary of the handsome newcomer. Once before she’d given her heart to a wealthy, charming man and she’d ended up pregnant and alone.
With the help of a lonely little girl and a brash young boy, can TC find a way to bring these two damaged people together? Can he remember his past and save his soul in the allotted time?
And can he do it all as a cat?
Excerpt
"Mom, you're squeezing too hard."
JT complained, but Kat could feel him trembling and his heart raced in time with hers. She gripped his arms and thrust him out from her.
"That was the most foolish, dangerous stunt. You could have been badly hurt. If it wasn't for this man. . ." Her voice trailed off as she looked up at the man now standing next to them. Her gaze traveled up his khaki-clad legs, skipped quickly past his slim hips over his broad chest to his face. The crowd of people - ancient, fussy Amelia Muellner with her troop of yapping Chihuahuas, George Baker and his hunting dog, young Timmy Widowski and his mother with his sick rabbit, and Missy Taylor and her cat - clustered around them, chattering and gesturing in excitement, faded away.
With the man's body in silhouette against the sun, she couldn't see his features, but like a stately oak tree in the middle of field of brambles, he radiated an aura of calm, of solid strength, someone to cling to when the weather turned mean and ugly.
Something twisted painfully inside Kat. Though her grandfather had always been there for her, in the last few years his health had failed and his mind had drifted to the past. She'd had to become the strong one, physically and emotionally. Then he'd died. Now there was no one in her life she could lean on, depend on, count on to be there for her when things got rough.
Anger at her weakness, her need for what she knew she'd never have sharpened her tone. "Thank you." She saw the man recoil, but before she could start again, JT, fear forgotten jumped in without reservation.
"Man that was awesome, better than a carnival ride. Thanks. You saved my a -"
"JT," Kat growled a warning.
"Butt," JT amended quickly with a grin.
She stood, smiled and held out her hand to the man. "I'm Dr. Clark, Katherine Clark, Kat to my friends."
A thrill ran up her arm as his strong, warm fingers closed around hers. With a nervous laugh she snatched them away. "Thank you again."
"Daniel Bishop, and this is my daughter, Alana." He laid his hand on the girl's shoulder.
Kat recognized the name. He was Hannah Sager's husband - widower. Try as Kat did, she couldn't avoid hearing small town gossip. Hannah's death had hit the close-knit Sager clan hard. Tall, thin, blonde, beautiful, brilliant and driven, Hannah had been the town's bright, flaming star.
Kat had grown up with Hannah. As children they'd been inseparable, but after high school they'd grown apart. Still, the bond between them had never been broken, so when Hannah asked for advice on what to do about her future, Kat had encouraged her to follow her dream and take the job at a Chicago zoo. It wasn't true, but the Sagers, especially Hannah's mother felt Kat had only done so because she didn't want any competition for her veterinary practice. After considering the Sagers almost a second family, their current enmity hurt. Though the Sagers didn't have the social standing of the Sinclairs they were wealthy and powerful in the community, so Kat tread lightly around them.
Nor, according to gossip, were they accepting of Daniel. They blamed him not only for keeping Hannah away from them, but also as irrational as it might be, for her death.
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Synopsis
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