boys, Raphael and Michael, were named for the archangels. I know they are anything but. At twenty-two, I married Raphael, the first Falconer boy. By twenty-five, I was divorced. I traded my wedding ring for two near-fatal bullet wounds—and it was the best damned trade of my life.

Now it’s time to go back to the place where it began, where Michael, the second Falconer boy, waits; his life on pause ever since I married his brother.

He’s convinced I’m there to destroy his life.

He’s not wrong….

FLAWED

I’m out of dreams. He’s full of them.

I wanted to be an actress. I got as far as waiting on tables while waiting for the call backs that never came. Disillusioned and burned-out, I head out on a lavish, all-expense-paid vacation before facing up to the fact that life has dealt me a big flat zero.

And then I meet him, and our mutual attraction is immediate and scorching. Jake Hunter is a professional beach volleyball player with gold in his sights. Olympic gold.

And perhaps another kind of gold. He thinks I’m something I’m not.

Rich.

No amount of attraction is going to survive those false impressions and clashing expectations. I’m not going to make it out of this summer fling with my heart intact.

And neither will he.

GRACED

I've outgrown him, but I haven’t forgotten him...

My ambitions have always been bigger than the town of Havre de Grace, but when my father has a heart attack, I return home to find the town little changed—

—except that Connor Bradley, the high school nerd, is now the town’s doctor, a Grade-A hunk, and a widower with two young children.

He doesn’t have time for distractions, not while juggling single parenthood and his clinic on five hours of sleep a night. I’m the girl he remembers as the high school flirt who left Havre de Grace for the bright lights of the city. I’m a dangerous distraction he doesn’t want and can’t afford.

When Connor’s plans for his first Christmas without his wife are derailed, I know I can step in and save the day for his adorable children.

But do I want to?

I’ve come so far, and I don’t know if I can go back…not even for him.

HAUNTED

Not all gifts are treasured. Only one can be kept...

I’ve given up on love, but Christmas unexpectedly ignites my bleak and solitary life with three men who represent my past, my present, and my future.

Peter Warren, my high school and college sweetheart, who shattered my heart but rules my dreams…

James Kerrigan, the principal of Havre de Grace Elementary School and my boss…

Brandon Smith, the dashing New York City lawyer, who promises an escape from the confines of my small town life…

Which man offers the gift of true love and happily ever after?

INFLAMED

There are no happy endings; not for “The Other Woman.”

In a small town, there’s just no way to start over.

Eight years after the worst mistake of my life, my life as a single parent is a grind of exhaustion in between spikes of fatigue—an endless struggle to make ends meet.

But then Sean Orr, Havre de Grace’s newest firefighter, comes to town and shows my son and I a new and beautiful kind of “normal.”

The happiness can’t last—not for Sean who is on the run from his past. When it catches up with him, will it bring my fragile normality crashing down around me, or will I find the strength to finally define my own happy ending?

JILTED

Can love ever measure up to perfection?

Jon Seifer is almost everything to me. He’s the security that anchors me and the love that raises me up.

However, I was, at birth, promised in marriage to an even more amazing man who holds a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, works as a cardiac surgeon at Mayo Clinic, and hails from the lofty Brahmin caste.

Like me.

And he is a good man. A man I could love given half a chance. Everyone agrees he’s perfect for me.

And everyone knows that I—an overachiever from birth—would never settle for anything less than perfection.

So where does it leave Jon…?

KINDLED

Second chances. Impossible odds.

Nicholas Dragov, a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, is the bad boy of ballet. On stage, his grand jeté defies the laws of physics and gravity. Off stage, he lavishes money on fast cars and fast women. His small-town roots are abandoned in the past, until a career-ending injury traps him back home, in the care of the woman whose heart he broke…

Me.

I was Nicholas’s first dance partner, but he alone made it onto the world stage. In the eight years since we’ve seen each other, I married, became pregnant, a widow, and a mother.

Now, Nicholas is home, his beautiful body broken, and his attitude darker and deeper than a volcanic crater. I know how to work with sports injuries, but no amount of training or professionalism can help me endure the man who abandoned me when I needed him most.

LURED

He ruined my holiday. And then my life…

When an accident—his fault...okay, maybe mine—cuts short my bicycle tour through Italy, I’m rescued by a brusque, career-driven American lawyer—the same kind of man who once broke my heart.

A week in Brandon Smith’s company, however, convinces me that the similarities are superficial. My Italian fling with Brandon becomes the highlight of my life, but can the glow of romance survive the harsh light of reality when we return to America and find ourselves on opposite sides of the courtroom?

MALIGNED

Is my past too much for a future with him?

Life is rosy as an aspiring college graduate and influential fashion blogger, but it wasn’t always that way.

I have secrets—shameful secrets, precious secrets—and a past that could shatter my carefree present and promising future.

And then I meet Tom—a brilliant lawyer, single father and devoted brother. Falling in love is easy.

I should have known better. Life doesn’t have an easy mode. Not for me.

When he discovers my secrets, will he trust only the facts he can see, hear, and touch, or will he be the first and only man to

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