Sweet Surprise
Sweet, Texas # 4
By: Candis Terry
Releasing January 27th, 2015
Avon Romance
Blurb
Playing naughty or nice . . .
Fiona
Wilder knows all about falling in lust. Love? That's another story. Determined
not to repeat past mistakes, the single mom and cupcake shop owner is focused
on walking the straight and narrow. But trouble has a way of finding her. And
this time it comes in the form of a smoking hot firefighter who knows all the
delicious ways to ignite her bad-girl fuse. Can lead to heartbreak . . .
Firefighter
Mike Halsey learned long ago that playing with fire just gets you burned. He's
put his demons behind him, and if there's one line he won't cross, it's getting
involved with his best friend's ex. But when fate throws him in the path of the
beautiful, strong, and off-limits Fiona, will he be able to fight their
attraction? Or will he willingly go down in flames? Or a sweet surprise!
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
Lightning never strikes twice.
Bullpucky.
On a stormy,
sleet-driven afternoon, Fiona Wilder sat pinned between the steering wheel and
the driver’s seat of her once-pretty-cool little Ford Focus.
If anything had to
happen to her more than once, she’d prefer something fabulous like winning the
lottery, trips to Hawaii, or even free groceries at the Touch and Go Market. At
the very least, she’d appreciate a double-dip victory from the Bubble Buster
Car Wash.
But nooooooo.
Thanks to someone
else’s road rage, she got to be the unlucky recipient of a car accident on
San Antonio’s busiest highway.
For the second
time.
From the moment
she’d merged from the on-ramp, she’d watched the van and pickup truck play a
dangerous, aggressive game. She’d even changed lanes to get out of their way.
Instead, she’d lucked out. Judging by the van attached to the hood of her car
and the SUV tucked into her rear bumper, she’d become the cheese in a three-car
collision road-rage sandwich.
Last time she’d
escaped with minor bruises. This time, the pain charging through her head and
left leg signaled the fate factor had flipped her a fully extended middle
finger.
Though her current
situation had her packed in like a sardine, she thanked God Izzy hadn’t been in
the car. Nothing in the world meant more to her than her little girl. And that
little girl would start to worry when her mommy didn’t show up on time.
Fiona sighed. With
her car currently jam-packed between two heavyweights, the likelihood of going
anywhere for a while seemed slim.
A wave of dizziness
spun her head while she blindly reached for her purse to grab her cell phone.
When her searching fingers came up empty she realized the impact must have
flung her bag to the floor. Anxiety twisted through her stomach. Someone else
could dial 911; she needed to get a call to her babysitter.
Through the
sleeting mist, she heard the oh-too-familiar wail of emergency vehicles and
tried to remember if Jackson was on duty. Ironically, her first accident was
what had brought them together. He’d been the hunky fireman to rescue her. And
she’d found love.
Sort of.
Now, as the sirens
grew closer and louder, and the familiar flash of red lights cut through the
storm-filled sky, Fiona tried to take a deep breath to stifle the pain. Just
more of her good fortune that her lungs weren’t willing to cooperate without
making it feel like her chest was caving in. She shoved panic aside and settled
for the quick shallow breathing pattern she’d used giving birth to Izzy. In the
meantime she waited for San Antonio’s finest to show up and pry her out.
“Ma’am?” A big fist
rapped on the driver side window. “Are you okay?”
With
another hee-hee-who, Fiona lifted her groggy gaze up past the big
khaki coat with yellow and reflective stripes, to the handsome face and intense
dark eyes staring back at her from behind the rain-streaked glass.
Her heart played a
quick game of hopscotch.
Apparently, even
pressed in the car like a ravioli, she could appreciate a handsome face.
A wicked bolt of
lightning struck not far beyond the massive fire engine. From beneath the
yellow helmet, the most perfect masculine mouth she’d ever seen lifted in a
reassuring smile, even as the slash of brows over those dark eyes pulled
together. The fireman said something she couldn’t hear over the drumming of
rain, the shriek of sirens, and the ringing in her ears.
Squinting, she
tried to identify him, but the aftermath of the collision had other ideas and
sent another wave of vertigo tilting through her head. This time, everything
went black.
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Author Info:
Candis Terry was born and raised near the sunny beaches of Southern California and now makes her home on an Idaho farm. She's experience life in such diverse ways as working in Hollywood recording studio to chasing down wayward steers. Only one thing has remained the same: her passion for writing stories about relationships, the push and pull in the search for love, and the security one finds in their own happily ever after.
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