Category: Romance Publisher: Books We Love
Type: Fiction
Pages: 170
Copyright: November, 2018
They were as different as night and day yet he longed to convince her she was the music that freed his soul.
Pianist Joseph Donovan was tired of his uncle’s interference in his career. In fact, he was tired of his career: concerts, recording sessions, pressure to compose new musical arrangements, and never having a minute to himself. He left it all behind, using his given name of Jake Smith to hide out on Lockabee Island. And that worked very well, until his uncle’s executive secretary came looking for him, issuing an ultimatum and deadline for his return home. In the process of negotiating his “capture”, he found himself fascinated with her. More surprising was that the passion he felt inspired him to start composing again.
Cheyenne knew Jake resented her presence on the island at first, but he soon sparked a passion that made her forget why she was there. When she discovered the real reasons for his leaving Chicago, did she still want to convince him to return? As the days and nights swirled together in a symphony of passion, she was torn between her responsibilities to her employer and what her heart desired. If she had to return to Chicago without him, could she survive the heartbreak?
Excerpt
Cheyenne stepped onto the boardwalk outside the Bed & Breakfast and slipped on her sunglasses to cut the glare of the late morning light. The only redemption from the hot July sun was the breeze blowing off the nearby bay. She sighed. She wasn’t here to enjoy the pristine beach and crystal blue water of the small tourist town. She was on a mission and today she would run him to ground, if she had to burn down every tavern in a two mile radius.
For days, he had managed to evade her. His minions in the little village of Princetown refused to give him up. The first day, the answer to her question as to where Joseph Donovan was had been met with “Who?” as though no one in the town of a few hundred people had ever even heard of the man.
Yesterday, it seemed everyone in town had agreed to send her on the wildest goose chase ever to be had. One comment from a local led to another place where, of course, the next resident sent her off in a different direction. She knew, that they knew, where he lived, but no one gave her a residence. They simply pointed her to yet another business, most of which were bars.
They apparently thought she was after him for nefarious reasons, which for the love of God was ridiculous. Did they think she had no sense at all that she would waste her time in some backwater village, dumping sand out of her shoes every day, in pursuit of some…some male who had made it his recent goal to negate obligations and run away from his responsibilities? No, this was strictly business.
If only her employer had not insisted she be the one to find him…
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