After her father’s untimely demise in
a mining accident and her mother’s abandonment, Lauren Lindsay is no
stranger to loss. She’s used to living life for one person: herself. That is,
until another family tragedy thrusts three children into her care and
uproots her life in ways she could never imagine.
Lauren's first instinct is to run,
until she meets their striking, mysterious neighbor Dean Powell. Their immediate
chemistry and his connection with her late father just might be enough to
keep her in town long enough to uncover pieces of her past that she
never had answers to. Dean’s shady past and her reluctance to trust him could
cost her the life she's always been searching for, but will she run back to
her old life? Or will she choose to stay and live the
life her father always imagined for her?
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“Have you
ever heard of koi no yokan?”
I shook my
head.
“It’s
Japanese,” he explained as he trailed his fingers lightly down one
of my arms. “It doesn’t have an English equivalent. Roughly
translated, it’s a term for the feeling that you have when you
first meet someone.”
“Like
love at first sight?” I asked, tipping my head up toward his.
“No, not
quite like that. It’s more like you know that a future love with
that person is inevitable, but it doesn’t exist in that moment.”
“I don’t
want there to be a pause button,” I said.
“Me
neither.”
He leaned
in and I thought it was going to happen. I thought he was going to
finally kiss me for real, instead of what I think happened last night
but was possibly imagined in my delirious, scared brain.
I even shut
my eyes in anticipation, but it never happened. I opened them to find
him staring out the window behind me. It was finally snowing.
Seriously?
This was
not how I pictured this moment in my head.
“Earth to
Dean,” I said, slightly annoyed as I waved my hand.
He snapped
out of his reverie and smiled bigger than I’d ever seen him smile.
“What’s
going on?” I asked warily.
He looked
like a kid in a candy shop. He stood and pulled me to my feet, and
then knelt down before me all in one fluid motion. Whenever this guy
proposed to someone, it was going to be smooth as hell. I knew he
wasn’t proposing, but I was curious about what he was doing beaming
at me from the floor as he clutched my hands dramatically.
“Lauren
Annabelle Lindsay.”
He paused
for effect.
“Would
you do me the honor of accompanying me to the Snow Ball?”
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