Title: One More Second Chance
Synopsis:
Dr. Alex Campbell has an agenda—finish his contract to provide medical services in Maine, pay off his medical school debt, and head back to his real life in San Diego. But when he meets Julia, all his carefully laid plans are put in jeopardy.
Julia Stewart, Lobster Cove’s high school principal, swears she’ll never let another man drag her away from the home she loves. Her aging parents need her, and the Cove is where she wants to raise her daughter. When her mother’s illness brings her and the big city doctor closer together, panic sets in. Her marriage taught her men don’t stay.
Can she put aside the heartaches of the past and trust Alex enough to accept the love he’s offering? Or will her fear of abandonment mean she’ll send him away forever?
Julia pushed away from him at Ava’s plaintive call
from the top of the stairs. Shock registered in her eyes as she stared at him,
her chest heaving with her labored breath. Arousal, exhilaration, and complete
and utter surprise pounded through his blood. He hadn’t expected fire to ignite
between them, hadn’t expected her response. Hell, he hadn’t even expected his
own response. He knew he was attracted to her, but the need he’d felt, the
all-consuming desire, had completely blindsided him.
Author: Jana Richards
Series: Lobster Cove
Pages: N/A
Date Published: N/A
Publisher: N/A
Format: eBook
Genre: Romance
Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours
Dr. Alex Campbell has an agenda—finish his contract to provide medical services in Maine, pay off his medical school debt, and head back to his real life in San Diego. But when he meets Julia, all his carefully laid plans are put in jeopardy.
Julia Stewart, Lobster Cove’s high school principal, swears she’ll never let another man drag her away from the home she loves. Her aging parents need her, and the Cove is where she wants to raise her daughter. When her mother’s illness brings her and the big city doctor closer together, panic sets in. Her marriage taught her men don’t stay.
Can she put aside the heartaches of the past and trust Alex enough to accept the love he’s offering? Or will her fear of abandonment mean she’ll send him away forever?
~Try an Excerpt!~
“How are your mom and dad?”
“About the same, I guess. Dad’s still deep in denial. He’s
taken her to Dr. Willson for some initial medical tests, but he’s been putting
off making an appointment with the neurologist Dr. Willson wants her to see.
And my mom is still…”
She looked away, on the verge of tears. Alex closed the
distance between them and pulled her into his arms.
“It’s okay. It’s going to be okay.”
Holding her securely with one hand around her waist, he
tucked her head under his chin. She held her breath as if to keep from crying,
her hands clutching the front of his T-shirt, her body tense. He slid his hand
up and down her back, trying to soothe.
“It’s okay if you want to cry, Julia.”
“I’m afraid if I start crying I won’t be able to stop,” she
said, sniffing.
“You don’t have to be strong all the time.”
She sighed and relaxed against him. “Sometimes I feel about
as strong as a wet noodle. Superwoman I’m not.”
He held her a little closer, burying his smile in her silky
hair.
“I don’t know. With a cape and some tights, you could
definitely pass for a superhero. You could be Super Principal, defender of
defenseless students.”
He heard her chuckle. She looked up into his face, her eyes
smiling into his, even though they were wet with tears.
“I couldn’t be Super Principal. I look terrible in a cape.”
He laughed softly. “You couldn’t look terrible if you
tried.”
“Thank you,” she said softly.
“For what?”
“For making me laugh when I felt like crying.”
“My pleasure.”
Alex’s heart thudded against his chest as she stared into
his eyes. He couldn’t look away. He lifted his hand and gently trailed his
fingers across her full lips, her eyes, her cheekbones. Slowly, he lowered his
mouth to hers, sighing at the feel of the softness of her lips. Her scent,
something floral and sweet, surrounded him, intoxicated him. Need pulsed
through his veins, but he held back, keeping his kisses light and tender when
he wanted to mould her against him and explore every inch of her body with his
hands and his tongue. She made a little sound of pleasure deep in her throat
and, straining upward to wrap her arms around his neck, flattened herself
against him, breast to chest, sex to sex. Restraint snapped. He wrapped his
arms around her, holding her close. She opened her mouth to him and his tongue
swept every corner, mating and dancing with her tongue. Placing his hand on her
buttocks, he pulled her against his growing erection, rubbing against her
mound. She moaned in response, moving against h
im.
“Mommy, are you going to tuck me in?”
~Meet Jana!~
When Jana
Richards read her first romance novel, she immediately knew two things: she had
to commit the stories running through her head to paper, and they had to end
with a happily ever after. She also knew she’d found what she was meant to do.
Since then she’s never met a romance genre she didn’t like. She writes
contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance set in World
War Two, in lengths ranging from short story to full length novel. Just for
fun, she throws in generous helpings of humor, and the occasional dash of the
paranormal. Her paranormal romantic suspense “Seeing Things” was a 2008 EPPIE
finalist.
In her life
away from writing, Jana is an accountant/admin assistant, a mother to two grown
daughters, and a wife to her husband Warren. She enjoys golf, yoga, movies,
concerts, travel and reading, not necessarily in that order. She and her
husband live in Winnipeg, Canada with their Pug/Terrier cross Lou and several
unnamed goldfish. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her
website at www.janarichards.com
Jana will be awarding $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn host.
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