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Delicate Dream (Book 2 of The Verbecks of Idaho)
Romance
Bethany Heart wants more for her daughter Olivia then a life with a loveless father. So she risks it by leaving everything behind to start fresh. But she is afraid. Taking a chance on a man she doesn’t know by being his housekeeper, Bethany discovers the life she’s always dreamed of until her ex-shows and threatens to end it all. Wanting to do the right thing, Cole Verbeck opens his home to Bethany and her newborn daughter. He is a hard man struggling to run his farm without his brother’s support. But as each day passes, he starting to realize coming home to Bethany is getting much easier. He is beginning to wonder how he would survive without them when they are just what he is missing in his life: a family.
Book Bubbles from Delicate Dream (Book 2 of The Verbecks of Idaho)
Faceoff
In book 1 of the Verbeck series, Cole is such a hard-ass. He is angry at the world. But in Delicate Dream you see that he has changed. I pulled this scene from chapter four because I love how it’s so male. You get to see Cole struggle against his old nurture. He has a faceoff with himself. He knows that things have to change to prove to himself that he’s a better man, but I find myself waiting for him to stomp his feet like a disgruntled child. I think this is what make’s Cole so likable.
Awaken (The Awakener Series)
Romance
Searching for a way to help her best friend, Rachel, through a psychological break, Lily McMaster travels to a small town where she must seek a guide into the backcountry of Northern Idaho. But before she can start her journey, Lily begins to have hallucinations, causing a crippling bloodheat that threatens to tear her in two. Are the hallucinations a glimpse of her own psychological break with reality? Or could they be glimpses into a past she might share with the hard, muscled warrior who guides her? As she and her companions travel to the site of both her past and future, she discovers the bloodheat foretells the coming of her birthright as the Awakener of Souls, and the man who walks by her side holds the key to her salvation.
Book Bubbles from Awaken (The Awakener Series)
Hummm
Gavin Jones is kind of a mystery to me. He walks around all conflicted and brooding in this story. Thing is; I like him that way. I tried to rewrite him with a little bit more personality in one of my earlier drafts, but he just didn't like me messing with him and went on strike. So I gave up and left him alone to brood. As the story progressed be stopped being a boob and started to show me how he felt. He blossomed. Don't tell him I said that. He may start haunting my dreams. In book 2, Oblivion, Gavin and Leora’s story continues, although Darron is the star. So don’t sweat it. You will see Gavin again.
Midnight's Dream (The Verbecks of Idaho)
Romance
Emma Verbeck, the shy sister in the Verbeck family, struggles to be seen as a woman and doctor, not the timid child everyone in her hometown remembers. Frustrated with her inability to stand up for herself, she finds herself intrigued by the arrival of a handsome outsider. Logan Miller has recently returned home due to his father's poor health, but when Emma finds she's falling fast for the outsider, she discovers the handsome man is off-limits. He's the man her family blames for the death that occurred years before. Suddenly, she's in over her head, caught between the brothers she loves and the man who offers her a future.
Book Bubbles from Midnight's Dream (The Verbecks of Idaho)
Big Girl
The scene makes me laugh every time I read it. Maybe that is because I can see myself doing this if I had older brothers I had to overcome in order to be seen as an adult. But even though Emma is trying to find her place in her family as a woman, this scene shows there are some things you can't out run, like yourself.
Bliss (Managing Mayhem)
Romance
Maddox Bliss—a navy chief, bar owner, and mayhem manager—has sworn off women until retirement when in walks River Connelly, a stubborn beauty with no experience applying for a bartender position. Forced to hire her by his pregnant sister, Bliss gives River a chance to prove herself. Little does he know she's the sister of Mathew Wagner—brother by bond—who recently died in a car accident, and Bliss feels responsible for his death.
Book Bubbles from Bliss (Managing Mayhem)
