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When Love Happens
Ribbon Ridge # 3
Ribbon Ridge # 3
By: Darcy Burke
Releasing May 26th, 2015
Avon Impulse
In a town as small as Ribbon Ridge and with a
family as large as the Archers, even the best kept secrets don’t stay buried
for long...
Tori Archer is married…well, on paper anyway. She
hasn’t actually seen her husband since the disastrous morning after their
impulsive Vegas wedding. The memories of their intense passion may still make
her weak in the knees, but Tori knows their marriage was a mistake.
After six months filming abroad, television
producer Sean Hennessy wants nothing more than to track down his sexy,
captivating wife and get her into bed… fast. So when his boss sends him to
Oregon to persuade the famous Archer sextuplets-the former stars of a reality
TV show-to do a reunion special, Sean sees the perfect chance to win Tori back.
Only, Tori wants nothing to do with him and is
determined to push him away. But their attraction is as hot as ever and Sean
will do anything to prove their relationship was more than just a fling…because
he knows that when real love happens, it changes everything.
“I’d appreciate you doing that. And getting everyone
else to do the same. Cade’s great. Just
not for me. At least, not right now.”
Kyle nodded. “We
only want you to be happy. You carry such a dark cloud.” He grazed his
fingertips across her forehead.
She looked up at
him from her five feet nine inches and allowed herself to smile. “It’s lightening. Slowly. But it is. You being here
helps a lot. I’m so glad you’re home.”
After four years
living in Florida, he’d returned last
spring to help with The Alex, which had been Alex’s intent. He’d
established a trust for the remaining six of them, plus Derek, and a plan for
them to renovate an old monastery into a premier Archer event space. His
primary goal was for everyone to come back home—to find their family and their
roots again—and most importantly, to appreciate them. Tori had done her part,
acting as architect for the space and spending as much time here as her real
job would allow. She had to travel back and forth to San Francisco regularly,
but her boss had been great about adjusting her workload. Unfortunately that
meant smaller, lower profile projects when she’d gotten used to working on international jobs that
had put her firmly in the limelight, a place she loved to be. Or had
loved until her life had been turned upside down. Would she ever go back to
that? Did she even want to?
Kyle smiled down
at her and took off into the crowd. Tori finished her beer. Time for another.
Or, she could just escape and go home. Home being her parents’ house where they’d all grown up.
She’d made her appearance, which pleased Dad, and now
she could take off without guilt. Right after she told him she was leaving.
Picking her way through the crowd, she nodded at people she knew, but realized
there were increasingly more she didn’t. The festival
was attracting quite a range of people, a lot of non-Ribbon Ridgers who
delighted in the small town nestled in the Willamette Valley with its wineries,
shops and art galleries, and picturesque landscape. It was close enough to the
big city to be accessible, but far enough out to feel like a destination. They
were counting on that to sell The Alex as the premier destination property in
the northern Willamette Valley.
Love the Archer family! Sean is amazing! He is so sweet and patient with Tori, even at times when I didn't think she deserved it. Wonderful second chance romance in a beautiful setting. The family is great and I can't wait for the rest of the siblings to find romance!
ARC via Edelweiss
Darcy Burke is
the USA Today bestselling author of hot, action-packed historical and sexy,
emotional contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a
happily-ever-after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved
him, with exceedingly poor illustrations.
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on
the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two hilarious
kids-who each seem to have inherited the writing gene in some form-and two
Bengal cats. In her "spare" time Darcy is a serial volunteer enrolled
in a 12-step program where one learns to say "no," but she keeps
having to start over. Her happy places are Disneyland and Labor Day weekend at
the Gorge.
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