Today I have the the release day launch for
The Clover Chapel by Devney Perry!
The
Clover Chapel
Devney Perry
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Day: May 30th
She took a dare and fell
in love. Truth would have been the smarter choice.
After years of living
under her father’s thumb, Emmeline is ready to break free. She’s abandoned her
life as a New York socialite to follow her dream of becoming a kindergarten
teacher in a small, wholesome town. Seeing the man that nearly broke her was
absolutely not what she had hoped to find in Prescott, Montana.
Nick hasn’t seen his Emmy
in nine years, but that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten a thing about the woman he loves.
After just one blissful night as man and wife, he gave her up, sacrificing his
own happiness to keep her safe—far away from him. But the moment she walks back
into his lonely life is the moment he decides never to let her go again. He
won’t waste his second chance. All he has to do is win back Emmeline’s heart,
keep her safe from the shadows in his past and prove to her that taking a wager
on him is a sure bet.
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“What are you doing here?”
“Picking you up for dinner,” he said.
“It’s only three thirty. I prefer to
put at least six hours between meals and I ate lunch at noon.”
“I’m not here to take you now, Emmy.
But I’m giving you a heads-up that I’ll be back at five thirty. Don’t drive
home.”
“You could have texted me all of this,”
I said.
“Yeah. But then I wouldn’t have been
able to do this.”
He crossed the space between us in a
millisecond and captured my mouth, wrapping his arms around my waist. His lips
pressed roughly against mine as his tongue swept my lower lip. Over and over he
stroked until my mouth fell open. When his tongue found mine, I melted. Heat
erupted throughout my body and my knees gave out.
When I started to sink to the floor, he
stopped kissing me but tightened his grip on my waist.
“I’ve got you.” A crooked grin formed
on his lips.
I took a moment to steady my legs and
stand tall before stepping back a foot. The skin around my mouth was surely
pink from the contact with his beard. But at least it would match my flushed
cheeks.
“Five thirty,” he said and walked out
the door.
Shit.
Thinking clearly was not an option
after a Nick kiss but I really needed to pull myself together. I’d spent last
night tossing and turning, replaying all the things Nick had told me these last
few months.
You’ve
always had my heart, Emmy.
We’re
it for each other.
I
thought about you every day for nine years.
And I thought about what my mother had
said. That my heart had already forgiven him and I just needed to get my head
straight with that concept.
Sinking into my chair, I let my head
fall into my hands. “What am I going to do?”
I tried to picture what our life could
be like. Me happy. Nick and I living a normal life. But every time that image
popped in my head, it was immediately followed by the vision of me waking up
alone to a note that said he was sorry.
Time was ticking away and I needed to
make some decisions. My attorney had emailed me while I was in Italy to say
he’d have my divorce papers drafted by the end of the month. Nick was not going
to stop inserting himself into my life unless I made it clear we were over.
Were we over?
For nine years, I’d thought we were.
But so much was different now. He was everything that I remembered. Kind.
Affectionate. Intelligent.
And stubborn. Every time I tried to
push him away, he just pushed back harder. But honestly, I really hadn’t put up
much of a fight against his advances.
“Ten seconds ago, you let him stick his
tongue down your throat with no fight at all, Emmeline,” I mumbled into my
hands.
Devney
lives in Montana with her husband and two children. After working in the
technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and
project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her kids. She loves
reading and, after consuming hundreds of books, decided to share her own
stories.
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