Author: Cora Seton
Series: Heroes of Chance Creek #3
Pages: N/A
Date Published: January 6th 2015
Publisher: One Acre Press
Format: ebook
Genre:Romance
Synopsis:
If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family’s ranch, he’ll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle—and find a wife. The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting hitched is proving more difficult. When he meets mountaineer Kenna North through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit—at least in her e-mails. She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance. But when Zane meets Kenna, she’s nothing like he expects, and Zane finds himself changing his priorities, fast.
If Storm Willow wants to save her family’s seaside cottage, she’ll have to keep her boss happy—which means taking Kenna’s place and marrying Zane when Kenna is detained out of the country. As long as Storm acts her part, no one will know that she’s an imposter. But when she falls for the handsome Marine, Storm begins to wonder if holding onto the cottage is worth giving up on love.
Can a fake marriage lead to real happiness? Or is disaster just a heartbeat away?
If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family’s ranch, he’ll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle—and find a wife. The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting hitched is proving more difficult. When he meets mountaineer Kenna North through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit—at least in her e-mails. She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance. But when Zane meets Kenna, she’s nothing like he expects, and Zane finds himself changing his priorities, fast.
If Storm Willow wants to save her family’s seaside cottage, she’ll have to keep her boss happy—which means taking Kenna’s place and marrying Zane when Kenna is detained out of the country. As long as Storm acts her part, no one will know that she’s an imposter. But when she falls for the handsome Marine, Storm begins to wonder if holding onto the cottage is worth giving up on love.
Can a fake marriage lead to real happiness? Or is disaster just a heartbeat away?
~Try an Excerpt!~
The knock
came again.
“I’ll
probably end up in jail,” Storm said finally.
“You won’t
end up in jail. Let me make this simple for you. Marry the cowboy or lose your
job. I’ll get in touch when I can.” Kenna cut the call.
Storm lowered
the phone slowly and faced the door, her thoughts too tangled to make sense. A
fake marriage? Six weeks? Thirty thousand dollars? As she debated her options,
a single image came into her mind—her mother and sisters standing in the
doorway of the seaside home they loved so much, waving good-bye as she left in
a cab for the airport. She knew what Cheyenne would want her to do. Marry the
man and get the cash.
Storm wasn’t
wired that way, though. She was law-abiding. She did things honorably. That’s
why she hadn’t skipped out on her mother even when friend after friend told her
she was crazy to stay at home and help raise her sisters instead of leaving and
starting her own life when she turned eighteen.
She’d always
taken the high road and she wasn’t about to change that now. Storm squared her
shoulders. Kenna would have to come home after all. She’d tell the cowboy her
boss had been delayed and call Kenna back and demand she get on the first
flight out of Nepal.
She pulled
open the door, and the words she had prepared to say died on her lips. Outside
stood the most handsome man she’d ever seen. He was six foot two, she
estimated, with shoulders wide enough to support a world of cares. His features
were strong, his hazel eyes frank but intelligent. He wore jeans that were worn
to a comfortable fit, and a forest green, button-down shirt layered over a
white T-shirt. As she stared at him, transfixed by his easy smile, the strong
line of his jaw, and the flash of interest in his eyes when he saw her, he
touched the brim of his cowboy hat. “Hi, I’m Zane Hall,” he said in a voice
that held just a hint of a western twang.
“Hi,” she
heard herself answer. “I’m Kenna North.”
~Meet Cora!~
Cora Seton
loves cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and lazing around with a
good book. Mother of four, wife to a computer programmer/eco-farmer, she
ditched her California lifestyle nine years ago and moved to a remote logging
town in northwestern British Columbia.
Like the
characters in her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern
technology, spending mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot into a
paradise of orchards, berry bushes and market gardens, and afternoons writing
the latest Chance Creek romance novel. Visit www.coraseton.com to read about
new releases, contests and other cool events!
Blog:
www.coraseton.com
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Cora will be awarding a $50 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour!
Such an interesting synopsis.
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I have enjoyed all of the books in this series and look forward to reading this book - thanks for the excerpt, Storm sounds like a character I want to get to know;)
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