A Change of View
The Northern Lights Collection
By Freya Barker
Genre: Romantic
Suspense Standalone
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Cover Designer:
Rebel Edit & Design
Available on
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What if one
morning you look in the mirror and no longer recognize the person looking back?
When Leelo can
no longer identify herself by the roles that once defined her, it's both
terrifying and liberating. Oh, she feels the loss, the grief, and then the
anger, but when she inherits property up north, she jumps at the promise of
freedom and independence.
Yet not everyone
in her new community is what they seem, starting with the surly mountain man
down the road.
As owner of the
local fishing lodge, Roar is content with his everyday life. And the older he
gets, the less he appreciates change. So when a blue-haired, tattooed ‘city
girl’ moves into the old motel, shaking up his daily routine, he’s none too
pleased.
Still, something
about the woman’s easy smile and almost reckless grit has him step up as her
keeper.
I slap my thigh
where a mosquito just bit me. I wipe at another one that lands on my arm, and
pretty soon the buzzing is loud around my head, and I’m frantically waving my
hand around my face. A blood-sucking army is out tonight, and I scramble to my
feet, snatch up the now empty bottle, and hustle toward the sanctuary of my
house.
My heart lodges
in my throat when I see a figure detach itself from the shadows of the porch.
“Was wondering
how long it would fucking take before you came running.”
I bend over,
gasping to get air in my lungs, when I hear the voice.
“I swear,
Riordan Doyle…one day you’ll be the death of me.”
“Not what I had
in mind,” he chuckles easily, as he grabs my arm, drags me inside, and out of
the way of the charging mosquitoes.
“What are you
doing here?” I ask, as he takes the bottle from my hand, sets it on the
counter, and pulls me into my living room. There he drops down on the
threadbare couch and tugs me down beside him. “I thought you went home?”
“I did,” he
confirms, throwing his arm over my shoulder and tugging me to his chest. “And I
was just putting my feet up on the coffee table when I realized I didn’t want
to be there.”
“No?”
“No,” he
repeats. “Couldn’t relax. Started thinking about this…thing…between us. And you
know what? Waiting for the right time is for the fucking birds.”
“It is?”
“It absolutely
fucking is,” he says with conviction, curving his free hand along my jaw and
turning my face toward him.
His hazel eyes
are almost black in the scarce light of my living room, his heavy-lidded gaze
roaming my features before settling on my lips.
“I’m thinking
right now sounds like the right time.”
I can feel the
deep rumble of his voice down to my toes, and my own drops a few octaves lower
as well.
“You do?” I
mutter breathlessly as his head bends down.
It’s clear from
my distinctly unimaginative responses that my brain cells have signed off for
the day. I’m starting to sound like a goddamn parrot, but Roar doesn’t give me
time to linger on that thought. His mouth is already on mine and his tongue is
demanding entry.
One moment I’m
tucked beside him on the couch, and the next I’m on my back, Roar’s heavy frame
covering me, his lips still firmly fused to mine. Good God the man can kiss.
Available on
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Freya Barker
inspires with her stories about 'real’ people, perhaps less than perfect, each
struggling to find their own slice of happy. She is the author of the
Cedar Tree Series and the Portland, ME, novels.
Freya is the
recipient of the RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for best first book, “Slim To
None,” and is a finalist for the 2016 Kindle Book Awards for “From Dust”. She
currently has two complete series and three anthologies published, and is
working on two new series; La Plata County FBI—ROCK POINT, and Northern Lights.
She continues to spin story after story with an endless supply of bruised and
dented characters, vying for attention!
Thank you!!
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