Her Heart for the Asking (Book 1 - TEXAS HEARTS) (17 page)

Holding the baby with one arm, she took a
stainless steel pan from the iron wrack above the stove and filled
it with hot tap water.  The kitchen was filled with delicious
smells of food that suddenly made her remember she hadn't eaten
anything since that morning.

The man came into the kitchen rifling
through the diaper bag until he pulled out a bottle filled with
baby formula.  Taking it from his hands, she placed it in the
pan to warm, glad that her time volunteering at the daycare center
back in L.A. made her feel useful here and took her mind off her
anxiety for the time being.

"Aren't you going to give the bottle to the
baby?"

"How would you like to eat a cold steak for
dinner?" she said softly, not wanting to jar the baby. 
Although he was still crying, the sobs weren't as extreme. 
After a few minutes she pulled the bottle from the water, tested it
on her arm as she walked back into the living room.  She
perched herself on the edge of the sofa and placed the nipple into
the baby's mouth.  Immediately the infant took hold and
started suckling. 

"Oh, thank God," the man said, running both
hands over his head as silence filled the air.  "I thought he
was never going to stop."

"He was just hungry.  That's all. 
Babies can't skip meals like grownups can."

"You must have had a lot of practice doing
this.  You're a natural."

"I know a thing or two about children."

"What did you do, raise all your brothers
and sisters?"

"I volunteered at a daycare for a
while."

 
The man sat on the
opposite end of the sofa and appeared to finally relax a
little.  "Daycare, huh?  I'll have to remember
that.  I'm eternally in your debt."

Sara tossed him a wry grin.  "That's a
bit extreme, don't you think?  All I did was give him a
bottle."

"You wouldn't say that if you'd been here
the last half hour."

The More I See – Book 3

As a top-notch
cutting horse trainer, Cody Gentry was riding high until he lost
his eyesight after a freak chemical accident. Unable to see the
hand in front of his face, never mind the horse or cattle he
trained, he knows his life is over and slips deep into depression.
His whole future hinges on the success of an eye surgery that could
give him his old life back.

When guide dog
trainer, Lyssa McElhannon, arrives on his ranch like Florence
Nightingale coming to save him, he wants no part of her or her
guide dog. But something about Lyssa’s musical laugh coupled with
her tenacity digs under his skin and won't let go. Having been
blind most of her life, Lyssa understands the paralyzing fear Cody
feels after losing his vision. But she refuses to let the stubborn
cowboy waste his life away sitting in a chair when she knows
first-hand that a good guide dog can change his world. She just
needs one month to prove it to him.

Falling in
love with Cody was not part of Lyssa’s plan, nor was having him
open her eyes to see that there was a whole lot of living she’d
been missing out on.

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COMING SPRING 2012:

Material Witness (A Romantic Thriller) by
L.A. Mondello

Crime author Cassie Alvarez had murder on
her mind when she walked into Rory's Bar under dressed and under
cover to research her latest crime novel.  Researching the
cool, blue-eyed and dashingly handsome man at the end of the bar
stirred her senses more than she wanted to admit.  But was
this man of leather armor all he appeared to be?

Playing White Knight to an innocent wasn't
how Detective Jake Santos planned to spend his time under
cover.  But there was no way "CJ" was what she claimed to be
and that nagging tightness in Jake's chest told him he'd better
take her home to safety before she got herself in trouble. 
Then the barroom exploded with gunfire.  When the dust clears,
an FBI agent is killed along with Providence’s most notorious crime
boss. 

Cassie is the only material witness who can
identify the shooter.  But when her name is leaked to the
media as his only witness to the grisly murders, the FBI wants to
protect their case at all cost.  Cassie insists she only
trusts Jake to protect her.  He gives his word he'll protect
her at all cost despite the fact that guarding the beautiful
novelist is a serious distraction.  But can he keep from
betraying her trust?

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