Category: Mystery/Suspense Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ISBN-10: 1601548273
Type: Fiction
Pages: 268
Copyright: Oct. 22, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781601548276
A sleepy Southern town …
… A missing treasure
Roxie Whitaker, the girl next door, and Sloan Harding, returning bad boy, team up to search for his inheritance. But someone else wants the fortune, muddying the waters with lethal intent.
Roxie Whitaker’s rosy worldview dims when her home is burglarized, but the arrival of Atlanta businessman and Mossy Bog’s bad boy, Sloan Harding, distracts her from the edgy feeling of someone watching her. Romantic sparks fly as she signs a business contract to manage the rehab his dilapidated property.
Sloan avoided his hometown for years, but now he’s determined to find his alleged missing inheritance. While Roxie and Sloan resurrect old secrets and forge a new alliance, a dangerous predator stalks them, lured by the scent of easy money. But when Roxie’s life is threatened, Sloan must navigate the muddy waters to find the truth and save the woman he loves.
Excerpt
Each night Sloan felt the tidal pull of the coast and the woman.
He’d known he could unlock the sexual energy that shimmered around Roxie. They’d been magic together. He’d had great sex before, but it had never consumed him like this.
He needed to see her, to fill his head with her fragrance, to run his hands through her hair, to drown in her tropical gaze, to hear her sigh out his name.
He wanted to sit in her cozy kitchen again. To have her take care of him, to savor her delicious meals. He loved that blue kitchen. He shook his head sadly.
“I’m losing it, bud,” Sloan said to Mac.
Mac thumped his tail energetically.
It probably wasn’t any news to his dog that Sloan was losing it. Mac knew everything. Mac had run right into Roxie’s arms the first time he’d seen her. Mac didn’t have any embarrassing family history to overcome. Mac had taken one look at the woman and decided that he wanted her.
Amateur sleuth and cobbler Fulton Moon (yes, his nickname is Full Moon) encounters beautiful and sinister Lucinda Mathews. Lucy, wife of prominent florist Arthur Mathews, wants to escape an abusive husband and Moon only wants to help. It isn’t that
