LATE LAST NIGHT
by Lilian
Darcy
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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?
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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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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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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