Sneak Peek! Late Last Night by Lilian Darcy
Title: Late Last Night
Author: Lilian Darcy
Event organized by: GoddessFish Promotions
Book Blurb
It’s
May 1996 and Marietta High School English teacher Kate MacCreadie is
almost at the end of her rope, torn between the demands of her work
and her heavy involvement in helping her younger brother Rob and his
wife Melinda take care of their five young children on the MacCreadie
family ranch.
When
Marietta’s fine-looking new sheriff, Harrison Pearce, pulls Kate
over for her third traffic violation in as many months, they both
know it’s a sign that something has to give.
Kate
finds it almost a relief to be told by this calm, strong man to get
her life in order, and then she just keeps on seeing him - at school
after there’s been a suspicious break-in, on the evening of the
prom when he’s off duty and driving his nephew and friends to the
event in one of his brother’s gorgeous vintage cars.
Late
that night, after prom is over, a tragedy at River Bend Park brings
Kate and Harrison together yet again, and this time, in the highly
charged atmosphere, Kate discovers that she never wants to let him
go. But with his divorce still fresh, is Harrison ready for someone
new?
Book Excerpt:
He gave
a slow smile, looked her up and down… or actually the opposite,
down, then up… and reached forward, into her hair. He pulled off
the sunglasses she’d pushed up there when the sun had dropped
behind the mountains. Then he reached again, and showed her the
glasses she’d spent ten minutes looking for after Annette and Gary
Shepherd had left, back at school. They’d been on the top of her
head the whole time.
Finally,
he took the spare pair sitting right on the end of her nose, that
she’d been unconsciously peering over as she drove, and had totally
forgotten about. The six earpieces of three sets of spectacles made a
tangle in his big, upturned hand.
“Ah,”
she said, and took them from him. She would have been deeply
embarrassed if he hadn’t been smiling at her. His smile was as calm
as the rest of him. It quietly lit his face from the inside, twinkled
deep in his eyes, and had a hint of wicked appreciation that might be
purely her imagination.
“So
I’ll hear from you tomorrow about the tail light,” he said.
He
really was letting her off! “Yes. You definitely will. Thank you.
Thanks so much.”
“Don’t
mention it.”
“Oh…”
“I
mean seriously, don’t mention it to anyone, okay?” Definitely a
twinkle in his eyes now. “Because I’m not supposed to do things
like this.”
“I—I
won’t.”
She
climbed back into the pickup, started the engine and set off
carefully, knowing he was watching her.
Don’t
speed.
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About the Author:
Lilian
Darcy is a five-time Rita™ Award nominee who has written over
eighty romances for Harlequin, as well as several mainstream novels.
She has also written for Australian theatre and television under
another name, and has received two award nominations for Best Play
from the Australian Writers Guild. In 1990 she was the co-recipient
of an Australian Film Institute award for best TV mini-series.
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This seems like a sweet story. The hero helping the heroine get her life in order and she helping him learn to love again. Looking forward to reading.
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