Waltz Back to Texas (Lost in a Boom Town)
Author: M. J. Fredrick
Publication Date: April 21, 2014
Pages: 200
Genre: Contemporary Romance
BLURB:
Welcome to Evansville, a sleepy Texas town on the verge of a boom.
After growing up in a dying town, with only two restaurants, no movie theater, and no future, waitress Cassidy Simon wants out. For once, luck is on her side when the oil boom comes to South Texas. She’s determined to use it for her advantage, starting up an RV park for the oilfield workers to add to her escape fund. She’s never been out of Texas, and she’s itching for adventure.
Grady McKenna couldn’t get away from his family’s ranch fast enough when he was a teenager, but a tour in the Air Force in the Middle East is enough to convince him there’s no place like home. He’s seen the world, had his adventure. Now he’s ready to contribute to his family’s legacy in Evansville.
Naturally, the woman who draws his attention is the one intent on slipping through his fingers. How can he convince her life with him will be all the adventure she needs?
EXCERPT:
Cassidy. That was her
name. He watched her move among the tables, her shoulders tight, and she looked
over her shoulder. Shit. He could see by the look on her face that she knew
they were talking about her, and the resignation in her eyes told him she was
used to it. He shoved an onion ring in his sister’s mouth and shook his head to
shut her up.
Sage rolled her eyes
and held onto the onion ring as she took a vicious bite out of it. “It’s not
like she doesn’t know.”
“Yeah, but—” He shook
his head. He didn’t want to talk about her, not when she was in the room, not
behind her back. And he would prefer finding out her secrets on her own.
Sage pointed at him
with the bitten edge of her onion ring. “She’s a disaster. If you want a nice
girl, I can introduce you around.”
“I don’t need my
sister to introduce me to women. Especially a woman who admittedly has no
life.”
She shrugged, finished
the onion ring, then plucked another from the basket. “I’ve got cute friends.”
Cassidy was plenty
cute, in those jean shorts, those long legs.
“Thought you didn’t
have time for friends.”
The grimace was quick,
but he didn’t miss it, and he wondered what had her so shut down.
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MJ Fredrick knows about chasing dreams. Twelve years after she completed her first novel, she signed her first publishing contract. Now she divides her days between teaching elementary music, and diving into her own writing--traveling everywhere in her mind, from Belize to Honduras to Africa to the past.
She's a four-time Golden Heart Award finalist, and she won the 2009 Eppie Award with Hot Shot and the 2010 Eppie with Breaking Daylight.
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