LATE LAST NIGHT
by Lilian
Darcy
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BLURB:
It’s
May 1996 and Marietta High School English teacher Kate MacCreadie is almost at
the end of her rope, torn between the demands of her work and her heavy
involvement in helping her younger brother Rob and his wife Melinda take care
of their five young children on the MacCreadie family ranch.
When
Marietta’s fine-looking new sheriff, Harrison Pearce, pulls Kate over for her
third traffic violation in as many months, they both know it’s a sign that
something has to give.
Kate finds it
almost a relief to be told by this calm, strong man to get her life in order,
and then she just keeps on seeing him - at school after there’s been a
suspicious break-in, on the evening of the prom when he’s off duty and driving
his nephew and friends to the event in one of his brother’s gorgeous vintage
cars.
Late that
night, after prom is over, a tragedy at River Bend Park brings Kate and
Harrison together yet again, and this time, in the highly charged atmosphere,
Kate discovers that she never wants to let him go. But with his divorce still
fresh, is Harrison ready for someone new?
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Excerpt
“Kate,” Harrison said, reaching her. He looked happy to see
her. His dark eyes contained an intent light and their focus was very steady.
“Hi,” she said. “I’ve been tasked to show you the break-in,
since I was the one who found it.”
She knew she was blushing a little. They’d had such a great
conversation, looking over his place last month. She’d had this shy, tentative
little idea that he might call and ask her out, afterward, but he hadn’t and
silly, romantic Kate had required a good, cheerful talking to from sensible,
cynical Kate to put the idea out of her mind.
It was probably the three sets of glasses on your head and
the four traffic violations, Kate. He thinks you’re a lunatic, and dangerous.
Harrison introduced the police detective, Greg Holding, who
asked, “Has everything been left just as it was when you first saw it?”
“Um, yes, come this way and I’ll show you.” She almost took
Harrison’s arm, pulling back just in time. It wasn’t the occasion for touching
a man, for heaven’s sake, and especially not a man like this, in uniform!
“There’s a lot of broken glass. Mr Earnshaw wanted to sweep it up, but I
thought you both should see it first, on the chance there’s—”
Evidence. But she didn’t say this, in case they thought
she’d been watching too many TV cop shows and crime dramas. Or in case she was
gabbling.
“Good thinking,” Harrison said, and she felt ridiculously
happy about the praise.
They smiled at each other, and her whole day changed.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lilian Darcy
is a five-time Rita™ Award nominee who has written over eighty romances for
Harlequin, as well as several mainstream novels. She has also written for
Australian theatre and television under another name, and has received two
award nominations for Best Play from the Australian Writers Guild. In 1990 she
was the co-recipient of an Australian Film Institute award for best TV
mini-series.
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