Haunted
Life Shocks
Romances #8
By Jade Kerrion
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Out September 8, 2015
Synopsis
Holly Langford has
given up on love, but the Christmas season unexpectedly ignites her bleak and
solitary life with three men who represent her past, her present, and her
future. Peter Warren, her high school and college sweetheart, who shattered her
heart but rules her dreams… James Kerrigan, the principal of Havre de Grace
Elementary School and her boss… Brandon Smith, the dashing New York City
lawyer, who promises an escape from the confines of her small town life… Which
man offers the gift of true love and happily ever after?
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Excerpt
Later that afternoon, after classes were over,
Holly hurried along the school corridor.
“James is looking for you,” a fellow teacher
said as she passed. “And she’s in his office.”
Holly grimaced. The last thing she wanted was to
see her again, but there was no avoiding it, not when the other parents in the
class had followed through on their threat to file an official complaint
against Aidan. What did they expect James to do? Suspend Aidan? The boy was
only in the first grade, and besides, no one could stay home with him. Debra,
his mother, was always working, which, Holly supposed, was part of the problem,
and Peter, his father—well, Peter had never been around, which was most of the
problem.
Holly paused outside of James’s office and
brushed her hair back from her face. Some childish part of her wished she had
stopped long enough to touch up her makeup. The more rational part of her
reminded her that the war between her and Debra had been won eight years
earlier—by Debra.
Aidan was living proof of it.
She knocked on the door.
“Come in,” James called out.
She straightened her back, raised her chin, and
pushed the door open.
Her gaze flashed past James and Debra to fix on
the other man in the room. Shock stole her breath. When had he come back to
town?
“Holly.” Peter Warren pushed to his feet and
extended his hand to her in greeting.
She didn’t move.
The years rolled back. Memories roiled forward.
How could eight years have passed when the
memories and the pain were still fresh? Peter had stood in front of Holly, his
handsome face a mask of regret. Debra stood behind him, her hand placed
protectively on a stomach that had yet to swell with her unborn child. “Holly,”
Peter pleaded quietly. “You know what you mean to me.” He reached out to her
with both hands and took a step forward.
“No, I don’t.” Her heart breaking, Holly stepped
back. She tugged the engagement ring off her finger and dropped it. The tinkle
of the ring hitting the tiled floor in Debra’s kitchen was inaudible over the
roaring in her mind.
The heartache rose to swamp her, drowning her.
Meet the Author
Jade Kerrion writes her award-winning science
fiction, fantasy, and contemporary novels at 3:00 a.m. when her husband and
three sons are asleep. She aspires to make her readers as sleep-deprived as she
is. Her alphabetical Life Shocks Romances series anchors around unlikely
romances you will root for and happy endings you can believe in. Her favorite
romance is the Double Helix love triangle between Galahad—the lab-created
perfect human being; Danyael—an alpha empath and Galahad’s physical template;
and Zara—the woman who can wreak more havoc with love than most people can with
hate. Join Jade Kerrion's Romance Readers mailing list for a FREE copy of
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