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Healing Harts #5
T.J. Kline
Releasing May 10th, 2016
Avon Impulse
The
fifth and (for now) final book in TJ Kline’s Healing Harts series.
Leah McCarran has never had anything
but bad luck in her life, with the exception of her dream job, working as a
therapist for at-risk youth at Heart Fire Ranch. But when her car breaks down
on the side of the road and she finds herself stranded, the playboy who shows
up to help, seems like the last person she can count on.
Gage Granger has risen above the
circumstances of his youth, enough that people believe he has the Midas touch,
especially in business. But when one costly mistake could send his reputation
and his company into ruin, he needs some time to get his head on straight
before he makes a decision that could affect hundreds of lives and heads to see
his brother, near Heart Fire. The last thing he expected to find was a feisty
therapist who needs his help, even if she won’t admit it.
Leah doesn’t want friends. There was
only one person she let close - her high school counselor and the mentor who
not only took her in but changed her life, and then she died. Leah doesn’t want
that kind of hurt again so it’s easier to remain distant. But Gage is making it
difficult. And finding out that he staying next door at Heart Fire Ranch isn’t
making it any easier to avoid the kind man who is worming his way into her
heart.
Gage sees the pain Leah’s trying so
adamantly to hide but neither can help the attraction that begins to develop as
they rescue two abandoned kittens and find they have far more in common than
they believed. Gage helps her to move past her nightmarish past and she helps
him realize that one mistake doesn’t define his worth.
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Excerpt
“We should start over.” Gage
held out a hand. “I’m Gage Granger, your neighbor. It’s nice to
meet you.”
Leah bit the corner of her lip as
the horse nudged her hand. “Don’t do that,” she said quietly.
She rubbed her hand over the animal’s face the way Jessie had told
her they liked. “We’re both old enough that we don’t need to
pretend we get do-overs in life.”
“Ah, another cynic.” He reached
out and patted the horse’s neck. The second horse seemed to take
notice and ambled slowly in their direction.
“A realist,” she corrected.
“Another?”
“Like my brother, or at least, he
used to be one.” Gage shrugged but looked back at her, curiosity
clear in his dark eyes. “So, you don’t think you can forgive and
forget? There’s no starting over?”
“Not really. You can forgive, but
it’s a conscious choice. Forgetting something ever happened? That’s
impossible. It’s like saying there’s such a thing as love at
first sight.”
“Next you’re going to tell me
you don’t believe in happily ever after either.” He clucked his
tongue and shook his head with a grin tugging at the corners of his
full lips. “What kind of therapist are you?”
She didn’t return his smile. “A
good one. One who knows what I’m talking about and uses hard facts
to get through to people who’ve see far too much reality in their
daily lives to believe in fairy tales.”
She leaned one elbow on the railing
and faced him. “The people I work with don’t need illusions. They
need coping skills because life isn’t some kind of fantasy. Most
people you meet aren’t good, and they don’t want to help you.”
Gage narrowed his eyes, trying to
see more than what she would allow anyone to see. Leah wondered for a
moment if she should have just kept her mouth shut. There was
something about this man that made her usual calm, reserved demeanor
take a vacation and made her tongue run away without her brain. If
she wasn’t careful, she’d end up telling him her life story, and
no one deserved to bear the weight of that nightmare.
T. J. Kline was raised competing in rodeos and rodeo queen competitions
since the age of 14, She has thorough knowledge of the sport as well as the
culture involved. She has had several articles about rodeo published in the
past in small periodicals as well as a more recent how-to article for
RevWriter. She is also an avid reader and book reviewer for both Tyndale and
Multnomah.
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I liked the excerpt, thank you.
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