Beside Still
Waters
By Ryan Jo Summers
Genre: Christian Romance
Publisher: SoulMate Publishing
Top Journalist
and corporate climber, McKayla Buchanan, is sent to a remote California
mountain camp for inner-city, at-risk teens. Accustomed to political and
high-society assignments, she is suddenly a fish out of water. At Camp In As
Much, she meets eight hostile and distrustful teens, assorted volunteers and
rescued horses—and Clay.
Clay Michaels is
the man who founded Camp In As Much and made it the success it is now. His hope
for the highly recommended journalist is to come and write a feature to send
seeds out to form other camps like his nationwide. He never considered the
reporter would turn out to be a lovely woman, or for him to have such an
attraction to her.
Between
McKayla’s worldly experience and Clay’s strong faith, they form a partnership
to help with the endless challenges of the kids. While McKayla’s assignment is
supposed to be temporary, it isn’t long before she and Clay are each wishing it
could last longer. A serious situation will force McKayla to decide if she can
give up her worldly ways and place her faith in the same higher source that
earthy and godly Clay does.
“I know that,”
Clay said softly. “But what if Will ends up the same?” He tapped one thumb on
the file.
She brushed her
thumbs over his fingers. “Then he will have made the same sad choices that
Manny did, despite all your noble efforts and sacrifices.”
He gave her a
sad smile, small and barely there, but it lit her heart up nonetheless.
“Clay, I’m so
sorry for Manny and the pain he caused you and for the pain Will is causing
you. I can see you think the world of these kids, all of them, and would stop
at nothing for them. Maybe, between the two of us, we can make a difference for
Will this time around.”
She searched his
face again, eagerly looking for a spark of hopefulness. A glimmer of the calm
determination she had come to expect from him. An idea struck her, fast and
uncharacteristically bold.
“I’ll tell you
what, when you go talk to Will about this joyriding event, and his
consequences, let me go along with you,” she offered.
He cracked
another sad grin. “So I’ll take it easy on him again? I think we’re past that
point.”
“So do I. I was
thinking more like we go as a united team effort. You know, strength in
numbers.”
Capturing her
hands in his palms, he pulled her off the floor and onto his lap. “I’d like
that and appreciate it.” He gave her a broad smile, a true smile this time.
“You have no idea how much that means to me, McKayla Buchanan. You just warmed
my soul.”
Surrendering to
a throbbing need that refused to be silenced, she lowered her face to his
upturned lips, touching for a kiss she just knew would be delicious.
Ryan Jo Summers
writes romance across the genres. Her books contain love stories blended with
any combination of mystery, paranormal, time travel, shape shifting, Christian
and humor elements. She comes from a family of wordsmiths. Her dad is a
songwriter and his aunt wrote poetry. Ryan Jo dabbles in poetry, short stories
and non-fiction articles.
In her spare
time, she enjoys cooking and baking, reading, spending time with friends,
growing plants, playing chess, mah jongg, and wiggly word find puzzles and
exploring the great outdoors. She lives in the heart of Appalachia in Western
North Carolina in a charming old cottage with a menagerie of rescue pets.
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