Last
First Kiss
Brightwater Series Book #1
Brightwater Series Book #1
By: Lia Riley
Releasing June 23rd, 2015
Avon Romance
Blurb
New to Avon author Lia Riley makes a
splash with her first sexy, hilarious book in the sizzling Brightwater series!
A
kiss is just the beginning…
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Perfect. Or so Annie Carson’s life appears on her popular blog. Reality is...
messier. Especially when it lands her back in one-cow town, Brightwater,
California, and back in the path of the gorgeous six-foot-four reason she left.
Sawyer Kane may fill out those wranglers, but she won’t be distracted from her
task. Annie just needs the summer to spruce up and sell her family’s farm so
she and her young son can start a new life in the big city. Simple, easy,
perfect.
Sawyer
has always regretted letting the first girl he loved slip away. He won’t make
the same mistake twice, but can he convince beautiful, wary Annie to trust her
heart again when she’s been given every reason not to? And as a single kiss
turns to so much more, can Annie give up her idea of perfect for a forever
that’s blissfully real.
Excerpt:
He tilted back his Stetson,
running his intense gaze over her face. “You haven’t changed much.”
The simple statement threatened
to fell her. He had no idea everything was different. The dreamy, hopeful girl
she’d been, the one he’d known all those years ago, had her atoms obliterated
and her soft underbelly refashioned, armored with titanium plates. She didn’t
run barefoot through meadows or jump blindly into rivers.
Not anymore.
“Thanks for the repair job,” she
said, stepping back, blinking rapidly. He’d fixed the coop, but no one could
fix the cracks in her confidence and imploded self-esteem. She needed to do
that—if only she knew how. Was there a Self-esteem
for Dummies?
Then he moved. Close. Closer. Way
too close. The old magnetic pull between them hadn’t lost any potency. The air
charged. So much so that when he reached out, cradling her cheek, she expected
a zap. “I missed you, Annie Girl.”
Her heart beat sideways at his
use of the old nickname.
“I . . . ” missed you too. God. So much. “I have to go.” She took another step
backward and then another. “And anyway, I’m not staying, at least not for long.
My family’s decided it’s time to sell the farm.”
“Sell?” His body went
rigid. “But this place has been in your family forever. All your history is
here. How can you let it go to a stranger?”
Who was he to come
around at an ungodly hour, in those tight faded jeans that showcased his . . . everything,
touching her cheek, giving her unsolicited guidance? Her chest heated. Is that
why he was here—being the good cop to Grandma Kane’s bad cop? “I appreciate
your help with the coop, but let’s not pretend you’re giving impartial
neighborly advice. Your family wants the property back. Trust me, I get the
situation. I was raised with it, but we can get more for Five Diamonds than
your grandmother could ever offer.”
He dropped his chin,
leveling a penetrating stare. “That’s not what I meant, it’s not about the
feud. You know I don’t care about any of that.”
She used to believe
that, had once fooled herself into believing they were kindred spirits. “I
don’t know anything about you anymore, Sawyer. Maybe I never did.”
She pivoted and strode toward the
house, clenching the scotch bottle. Why did he come, force her to feel things
better forgotten? She was almost at the stairs when a large, powerful hand
closed on her upper arm, not a grip, but a gentle touch that halted her
mid-step. Her heart pounded, her belly breaking into wild flutters.
Slowly, so slowly, she turned.
He held her gaze squarely, as if
daring her to look away. “You know who I am,” he said.
She couldn’t reply, even if she
knew what to say. She couldn’t blink or swallow or think. The only sound beside
the wind came from their shallow breaths. She and Sawyer might be water under
the bridge, but it looked like that water was churning, roiling whitewater.
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Author Info
Lia Riley writes offbeat New Adult and Contemporary
Adult romance. After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, she
scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence and a terrible
sense of direction. She counts shooting vodka with a Ukranian mechanic in
Antarctica, sipping yerba mate with gauchos in Chile and swilling XXXX with
stationhands in Outback Australia among her accomplishments.
A British
literature fanatic at heart, Lia considers Mr. Darcy and Edward Rochester as
her fictional boyfriends. Her very patient husband doesn't mind. Much. When not
torturing heroes (because c'mon, who doesn't love a good tortured hero?), Lia
herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about future books, wades
through a mile-high TBR pile and schemes yet another trip. Right now, Icelandic
hot springs and Scottish castles sound mighty fine.
Website: http://www.liariley.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorliariley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/liarileywrites
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