Anna blinked at him like an owl. “It was a joke.”
He leaned closer. “I know that,” he said, his breath fanning across her
cheek. “So was mine.”
This was flirting. He was flirting with her, wasn’t he? Or was he?
Maybe he said things like this to every woman.
See? This was why it was treacherous to be around a man like Connal.
Anna stared back, unable to come up with a single word to say.
Mercifully, the bell jangled again above the door, and Connal glanced across
the room. “Here’s Elspeth. I suppose we should go through and get the meeting
started.”
Anna blinked again and took another long, slow sip of spiked coffee that
scalded her tongue, seared warmth down into her stomach, and left her
disoriented. At least, it must have been the whiskey’s fault. Another
explanation would have involved admitting that it was Connal as much as the
Scotch, and that was inconceivable. Men hadn’t had this kind of an effect on
her since high school. Since college.
Since Henry.
She’d grown up since Henry. Grown more rational since Henry. And she’d
learned a thing or two about not taking actors at face value.
BLURB:
Helping
her aunt organize a Beltane Festival in a picturesque Highland village seems
like the perfect escape from Anna’s second broken engagement and the meltdown
that wrecked her legal career. But to succeed, she’ll need to wrangle
kilt-wearing villagers, dangerous sheep, a disaster of a dog, and the reclusive
laird who refuses to open his property to the public for the ancient tradition
of “Sighting.”
For
centuries, Loch Fàil in Balwhither has been known to locals as a ‘thin’ place,
one where the veil between worlds peels back on Beltane morning to reveal the
face of a person's one true love. The tradition could draw tourists by the
busload, but that’s exactly what Connal MacGregor fears will expose the two
secrets he's been desperate to keep hidden.
As Anna
struggles to mediate between the needs of the village and Connal’s need to
protect his identity and his child, she finds herself falling in love with all
of them: Connal and his daughter, the magical glen, the villagers. But day by
day, opening herself to love exposes deep scars from Anna’s childhood, and
confronting those wounds could finally set her free--or endanger her every
chance of happiness.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Martina Boone is the
award-winning author of the romantic southern gothic Heirs of Watson Island
series for young adults, including Compulsion (Oct ’14), Persuasion (Oct ’15),
and Illusion (Oct ’16), from Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse, and
heartwarming contemporary romances for adult readers beginning with Lake of
Destiny. She’s also the founder of AdventuresInYAPublishing.com, a three-time
Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Site, and YASeriesInsiders.com, a
site dedicated to encouraging literacy and reader engagement through a
celebration of series literature. She’s on the Board of the Literacy Council of
Northern Virginia and runs the CompulsionForReading.com program to distribute
books to underfunded schools and libraries.
She lives with her husband,
children, shetland sheepdog, and lopsided cat, and she enjoys writing romance
set in the kinds of magical places she loves to visit. When she isn’t writing,
she’s addicted to travel, horses, skiing, chocolate flavored tea, and anything
with Nutella on it.
Website http://www.martinaboone.com/
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