Circle
Eight: Tobias
Circle
Eight, Volume
6
by Emma
Lang
Genre: Historical Western
Date of Publication: September 30,
2014
ISBN: 9780988566675
ASIN: B00NHXMZKA
Number of pages: 215
Word Count: 65,000
Cover Artist: Kim Killion
Book Description:
A broken man. A woman who needs a
hero. A love that should never have been.
Rebecca Graham always knew she was
to marry a hero and leave home in blissful happiness. She chose that man when
she was seventeen. Unfortunately, her family hated him. In a fury over being
swindled by someone else, Tobias burned down the Circle Eight, her family's
ranch. He spent four months rebuilding alongside her family in penance. When he
accepts her help to nurse his grandfather, she has hopes he will become the
hero she envisioned. She was wrong.
Tobias Gibson never expected
happiness for himself. His brothers, adopted by their patriarch Pops, were all
that matters. After Pops dies while under Rebecca Graham's care, he cannot
forgive her failure to save his grandfather. He ignores his attraction to
Rebecca. There is too much bad blood between them.
Life never rolls forward as
expected however. Five years after he'd last seen her, Rebecca Graham reenters
his life. Together they face the storm that sweeps across their lives. They have
to rely on each other and ignore the growing love setting their souls and
hearts on fire.
Excerpt:
April 1849
The fist that
crashed into Rebecca Graham’s jaw was small but hard and full of fury. Her neck
snapped back and stars danced in front of her eyes but she held on to her
temper and the arm in her hands.
“Sarah, you have
to let me do this. I know it hurts but I need to set your arm.” Rebecca tried
again and a second punch slammed into her cheek.
“Jehosophat, girl,
don’t go punching Miss Rebecca. She’s trying to help you.” The old woman stood
behind them, wringing her hands and pacing. Her granddaughter Sarah had broken
her arm falling out of a tree. As the nearest person who could reset a bone,
Rebecca had been summoned.
Then subsequently
punched for her efforts. Sometimes her need to be a healer and an herbalist
seemed like a mistake. A big joke by God to punish her for being the ugliest
Graham sister, the unmarried spinster, the one holding out for a non-existent
prince.
“If you don’t sit
still, I won’t be able to set the bone and your arm will be crooked for the
rest of your life.” Rebecca had two younger siblings and a passel of nieces and
nephews. She knew how to handle unruly children. “Is that what you what?”
Sarah, a redhead
with a riot of freckles on her nose, pooched out her lower lip and shook her
head. The rough and tumble girl reminded Rebecca of her younger sister,
Catherine, full of piss and vinegar and ready to take on the world one fist at
a time.
“Then let me do
this. You can tell all the boys how you bit through a piece of leather rather
than cry.” Rebecca reached into her tapestry bag and pulled out an old leather
strop that had belonged to her oldest brother, Matt. It had grown too thin for
a razor, but folded in half, it would work for an eight-year-old to bite down
on. Rebecca ignored the throbbing in her cheek and put the leather in the
girl’s mouth.
Sarah scowled, her
red brows furrowed, but she bit down on the leather. As Rebecca took hold of
the girl’s arm again, she paled, making the freckles pop out like cinnamon
spots.
“Close your eyes
and imagine you’re in your favorite place.” Rebecca nodded to Mrs. McGinty, who
stood behind her granddaughter this time, ready to intercede in case a little
fist flew again.
Rebecca stared at
the misshapen arm, seeing beneath the skin and muscle to the fracture. She had
set bones before, with success, but every time was new and different.
Challenging and intimidating. She took a deep breath and allowed a calm to
settle over her. It happened each time she had to use her healing skills and
she welcomed it, like an old and trusted friend.
She positioned her
hands on the girl’s arm and pulled, moving the bones into place as though
completing a puzzle. Within a minute, she was done. Sarah had pressed her face
into her grandmother’s belly and quietly wept.
“Good girl.”
Rebecca smiled and resisted the urge to wipe the sweat off her own brow. “Now
let’s put a splint on your arm and then I’ll give you something for the pain.”
“Thanks, Doc.”
Mrs. McGinty had tears in her eyes. “She’s all I have left of my son.”
Rebecca understood
all about family and holding onto them with all your might. Her family was all
she had as well, and although there was a lot more than one, she treasured
every member. Eight siblings, all on their own path in life but tied together
by their family ranch, the Circle Eight.
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About
the Author:
Beth Williamson, who also writes as
Emma Lang, is an award-winning, bestselling author of both historical and
contemporary romances. Her books range from sensual to scorching hot. She is a
Career Achievement Award Nominee in Erotic Romance by Romantic Times Magazine,
in both 2009 and 2010, and a semi-finalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough
Novel Award Contest.
Beth has always been a dreamer,
never able to escape her imagination. It led her to the craft of writing
romance novels. She’s passionate about purple, books, and her family. She has a
weakness for shoes and purses, as well as bookstores. Her path in life has
taken several right turns, but she’s been with the man of her dreams for more
than 20 years.
Beth works full-time and writes
romance novels evening, weekends, early mornings and whenever there is a break
in the madness. She is compassionate, funny, a bit reserved at times, tenacious
and a little quirky. Her cowboys and western romances speak of a bygone era,
bringing her readers to an age where men were honest, hard and packing heat.
For a change of pace, she also dives into some smokin’ hot contemporaries,
bringing you heat, romance and snappy dialogue.
Life might be chaotic, as life
usually is, but Beth always keeps a smile on her face, a song in her heart, and
a cowboy on her mind. ;)
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