A
Time of Fear & Loving
Riverton
Road Romantic Suspense Book 5
Mike
& Amanda’s Story
by
Alice
Orr
#Romance
#Suspense #MFRWauthor #IndieAuthor
A
hot car and a hot guy can get a girl into trouble.
Maybe
that’s what Amanda Miller needs. But how much trouble is too much trouble? Dead
bodies on the riverbank? A possible kidnapping? Sexy detective Mike Schaeffer
might save the day. But who will protect Amanda’s heart?
Alice
Orr is known for Delicious Suspense Spiced with a Love Story.
She
does it again in A Time of Fear & Loving.
A
Time of Fear & Loving is Book 5 of
the Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series set in
Riverton, New York featuring the Kalli and Miller families and the Women of
West Main who will debut in Book 6. Find out more at www.aliceorrbooks.com.
Amazon
Reviews of Alice’s Books.
“Alice Orr hits it out of the park. If you see her
name, grab the book.”
“Kept me turning pages. So many twists of the plot
kept me wondering what would happen next.”
“Anytime I see Alice Orr’s name on a book, I will be
sure to pick it up. I know I am in for a great ride.”
Amanda Miller doesn’t realize how much unfinished
business she has in Riverton. There are battlefields she didn’t conquer her
first time around back here. The most dangerous of those battlefields involves
Mike Schaeffer, the young love she lost long ago.
She wishes she could write an alternate ending to
their story. “Look at me,” she might say. “See the woman I am now. Don’t you
wish you had noticed me then? Sorry. You missed your chance.” Then she would
walk away without a backward glance.
But it is too late for that, too late for anything
between Amanda and Mike. Or, so it seems.
RR
Excerpt
A sign indicated the hotel bar and restaurant to
Amanda’s right, down a hallway lined with blown-up photos of Riverton’s
turn-of-the-last-century glory days. In their own earlier times, Willow would
have been waiting in that bar, surrounded by friends and admirers. Willow’s
highly charged spirit drew people to her, occasionally the wrong people, but no
real harm had ever resulted, certainly nothing like the trouble she claimed to
be in now. There was no mistaking her fear last night on the phone. She’d
begged Amanda to meet here. Her immediate instinct was to refuse, but she
couldn’t ignore such pitiful pleas from the person who had been her only ally
during some difficult years when a friend was what she needed most and Willow
had been that friend. Consequently, here Amanda was, trundling her overloaded
luggage toward the registration desk, so absorbed in thought she nearly ran
into the man standing still as a stone wall in her path. She glanced up to
apologize, but the words flew out of her mind before she could utter them.
The handle of the rolling bag slipped from Amanda’s
grasp and hit the marble floor with what sounded to her like a thunderclap. She
might have lost the strap of her purse down her arm as well, but it caught on
the shoulder pad of her jacket. In one of those odd flashes of thought that can
happen during a moment of shock, she wished she hadn’t worn linen because the
fabric crumples so easily. She must look like one big wrinkle right now, hardly
the image she would have preferred to present the first time she saw Mike
Schaeffer again. At any moment over many years past, if she’d been asked about
this man, she would have said she barely remembered him, which she would have
honestly believed to be true. Her heart and her life were filled with William
then, but now William was gone. More and more each day, she felt like he had
been gone a very long time.
Standing awkwardly in this hotel lobby, she was
suddenly aware that she remembered Mike Schaeffer much too well. She stared up
into his startling face, startling because he was here in front of her, so
close she could have reached out and touched him. More startling because he had
grown more handsome with age. Most startling because she was instantly
seventeen again, filled with the confused, exciting, wonderful feelings he had
aroused in her then. She might be a thirty-something woman now, running a
complicated business back on Riverton Road Hill. But, here in the lobby of the
North Country Inn, she was once again a young girl with an aching adolescent
crush on a man beyond her reach.
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A Time of Fear & Loving HERE
About
the Author:
ALICE
ORR is
the author of 16 novels, 3 novellas, a memoir and No More Rejections:
50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript that Sells. A former book editor
and literary agent, Alice now lives her dream as a full-time writer. She has
two grown children and two perfect grandchildren and resides with her husband Jonathan
in New York City and New Jersey.
