ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professional
Bio-Short: Starla Kaye wears many
hats professionally and as a writer. She is the community coordinator for a
Midwestern accounting firm, a gerontologist who volunteers with an active group
of senior adults, a mentor/teacher of writing, and a multi-published author.
She dabbles in writing romances of many sub-genres: contemporary, historical
Western, medieval, sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, and Regency. To date she has published
20 novels, 39 novellas, 8 anthologies, 18 short stories, and 3 audio books. You
can learn more about her work at http://starlakaye.com
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Book Title: Trusting Love Again
Publisher: Black
Velvet Seductions
Date Published:
November 8, 2015
ISBN: 2940156674237
ASIN: B017RNS888
Genre:
Contemporary romance
Heat Rating: 3
Page Count: 99
Buy Links
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trusting-love-again-starla-kaye/1122924735
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All she wants is to start over, live a peaceful life…
After an abusive marriage and an ugly divorce, Toni needs to
rebuild her self-confidence and start a new life in her hometown. Going home
again and confronting people she’d hurt when she’d left is never easy. She’d
hung onto the idea of buying a long-abandoned old house and remodeling it to
help her recover. But a man from her past has recently purchased it for his
business. That’s her emotional breaking point and she does something reckless.
Now she must pay the legal consequences of her foolish actions…by working for
him.
All he wants is to
focus on his work…
Chad’s job as a lawyer working to protect the rights of the
abused elderly consumes his time and energy. It cost him his marriage and an
aborted child he hadn’t known about. Now he works harder, guards his bruised
heart. Yet the return of someone he’d held secret feelings for comes back to
town. She upsets his world, starting with minor destruction of his business
property and causing him minor injury. He shouldn’t become involved in helping
this troubled woman, yet he can’t keep from doing so.
Two heart-damaged
people have trouble trusting love again.
Excerpt – PG13
“I feel like such a wimp,
letting him get to me again.” She moved away and walked over to slump down on
the sofa. “All it took was hearing his voice.”
Chad closed the door and took a
calming second before he faced her. “You’re not a wimp. That scumbag should be
locked up for what he did to you.”
The color had returned to her
face once more and she gave him a fragile smile. “I’ve come to realize that
everything that happened wasn’t all
his fault.”
He blinked at her. “What?”
She shrugged out of her coat and
let it fall behind her. “I allowed it to happen, and not just because of the
whole love, honor, and obey stuff. I
was blinded by his charm, and his ease at throwing me apologies is not an
excuse. I saw through them. But I wanted to believe in the magic of love too
much. I wanted him to be the Prince Charming of my dreams. He wasn’t. He’d
never been that, not even when we started dating. I was just too determined to
make him into it.”
“You always were a romantic.” He
remembered how much she’d liked the Disney movies, especially the ones with
happy endings for one couple or another. Ted had done his best to avoid them. Beauty and the Beast had been her
favorite; The Little Mermaid was
another one Chad knew she’d watched over and over. To his friend’s disbelief,
he had sat with her in the Thornton family room and watched both of them one
day when she’d been miserable with the chicken pox. She’d been ten, he fifteen.
He’d taken a lot of ribbing from Ted for doing it, but he’d done it anyway. Did
she even remember that time?
She gave him an amused smile. “I
don’t watch Disney movies anymore. Well, not like I used to do.”
He glanced at the coffee table
and the thick paperback lying on top, a romance novel. After what she’d been
through, it surprised him. “I would have expected you’d be reading a murder
mystery or something dark.”
She shrugged. “I still enjoy a
good happy ending, particularly a story that pulls my heart strings. Just
because there isn’t such a thing in my life, doesn’t mean I don’t want it for
others.”
He understood why she felt that
way, but it bothered him. “You shouldn’t give up, Antoinette. Give yourself
some time. Don’t rule out having something special because of one jerk.”
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