Love is the best medicine.
Primrose Lane
Harmony Harbor #3
Debbie Mason
Releasing June 27, 2017
Forever
Love
is the best medicine.
Olivia Davenport has
finally gotten her life back together. She’s left her painful past behind,
started over in a new town, and become Harmony Harbor’s most sought-after event
planner. But her past catches up to her when Olivia learns that she’s now
guardian of her ex’s young daughter. With her world spinning, Olivia must
reconcile her old life with her new one. And she doesn’t have time for her new
next door neighbor, no matter how handsome he is.
Olivia may act like she’s got everything under control, but Dr. Finn Gallagher
knows a person in over her head when he sees one. He’d really like to be the
shoulder she leans on, but Olivia makes it clear she doesn’t want his help.
Since he’s returned to town, his waiting room has been full of single women
feigning illness. Yet the one woman he’s interested in is avoiding him. But
with a little help from some matchmaking widows and a precocious little girl,
Finn might just win Olivia over.
“What are you
two still doing in the pond? You can see that we’ve rescued Miller and George,
can’t you?” his baby brother Liam asked.
Finn was about
to make a smartass comeback when his other brother shouted, “Finn, on your
six!”
The wedding
guests and waitstaff yelled, “Run!”
Finn glanced
over his shoulder. Sure enough, two swans were doing their running-on-water
thing and coming toward him with their wings spread wide. “Liv, get out of
here!” he yelled, turning to splash the big white birds in order to distract
them so she could get to shore. It didn’t feel very manly or heroic, but he
couldn’t exactly scoop Liv up and run from the pond with her in his arms. His
leg wouldn’t make it. But it’s the thought that counted. Or so he was telling
himself when he heard the sound of a warrior’s cry. If his brothers raced into
the pond to rescue him, he was going to kill them.
Somebody
brushed past him, knocking him off balance. It was Liv. Brandishing her shoes
like weapons, she made a beeline for the birds. The swan on the right dipped
forward and grabbed the shoe. . . and Liv’s hand. Finn launched himself at Liv,
wrapping an arm around her waist and dragging her away from the posturing
birds.
A piece of bread hit Finn in the side of the head.
The swan dropped Liv’s shoe and joined his three pals to glide gracefully to
where the guests were now throwing bread into the pond. Too bad someone hadn’t
thought of that earlier.
“If I never
see a swan again, it’ll be too soon,” he muttered, half-dragging Liv out of the
pond after him. It wasn’t until they’d climbed out that he realized she hadn’t
said a word. He slowly turned. She was pale and shaking. “Liv, what is it?”
She looked at
him, stared at him really, as if she expected him to understand what was going
on. And there was definitely something going on, and it had nothing to do with
a lost shoe. It hit him then. It had to do with a loss of another kind, a
gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, heart-breaking loss that no one should ever have
to bear.
He put his
hands on her shoulders and ducked to look in her glassy eyes. “She’s fine, Liv.
She was never in any real danger. We were here.”
“What if we
hadn’t been?” she whispered, looking to where his brothers were drying George
and Miller with towels. “She wanders off all the time and won’t come when I
call. She hides from me, climbs rocks and trees, runs into the woods and the
ocean at high tide.” A tear rolled down her cheek. She wiped her face and
looked away. “If something happened to her . . .” She slowly shook her head. “I
can’t do this, Finn.”
Debbie
Mason is
the USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling
author of the Christmas, Colorado series and the Harmony Harbor series. Her
books have been praised for their "likable characters, clever dialogue and
juicy plots" (RT Book Reviews). When she isn't writing or reading, Debbie
enjoys spending time with her very own real-life hero, their three wonderful
children and son-in-law, two adorable grandbabies, and a yappy Yorkie named
Bella.
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