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Saved By You
(Destiny Bay Romances -
The Islanders Book 1)
(Destiny Bay Romances -
The Islanders Book 1)
by Helen Conrad
Saved By You, the first book in Helen Conrad's Destiny Bay Romances - The Islanders, is currently ON SALE for only $0.99. Also available: Found By You, Tempted By You, and Rescued By You. The books in this series are loosely connected. Each can stand alone.
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Description
Image is everything.
Bad boy Kane's image is what gets him the job protecting Annie and her Hawaiian ranch but it's an image he's restless to shake. This time he wants to get the girl - not the blame.
Annie Ventura needs Kane to be a tough guy, but what she falls for is the tenderness. Now she has to figure out how to handle both sides of this irresistible man who is dredging up secrets from her past.
Kane Carrington can't resist a call for help from the girl he secretly loved in high school. He goes back to his Hawaiian home, only to find he's still the "bad boy" to her golden girl image. But now he's a man, not a boy and Annie Ventura can't resist him. But does he have to destroy her memories of her dead husband in order to seal the deal?
As they work together to get to the bottom of the harassment she’s been experiencing, memories return and emotions are rekindled. Annie learns that protecting the past for her son just might lead to her losing their future. Kane begins to understand his family and his place in it - and how important it is to build bridges instead of blowing them up.
Excerpt
Emotions were usually pretty deep with him. He didn't like to let them get too near the surface. But for just a moment, he'd stopped and turned slowly, taking it all in, remembering a past that could never be again, missing it, missing home and actually feeling a slight stinging in his eyes.
And that was when she got him.
"Okay, you bastard, hold it right there. Don't make a move."
At the same moment the voice hit him, both barrels of a shotgun were jammed very hard and very painfully into the small of his back, and he groaned in disbelief. He hadn't even heard her coming up behind him. He shook his head. He was losing it.
"I'd like to blast a hole right through you. How would you like that, you slime ball?"
"Hey, hold on just a minute..."
The barrel jabbed him. "Don't try to talk, dirt bag. Just start walking. I'm going to walk you right off my land, and then I'm going to call the cops. And the next time you come slinking around I'm going to blow your brains out. You got that?" She jabbed him again to get him going toward the road. "And you can tell Bart Carlson I'll do the same for any other of his pathetic flunkies that he sends over here to screw up my life."
It took only one quick twist and a little leverage, and he had her on the ground, his big body holding hers down, the shotgun wrenched from her grasp and sent spinning in the dust.
But that didn't mean she gave up. Not by any means. She fought like a wildcat, spitting and scratching at him with fury. It took both his hands to hold down hers, and the full length of his body to hold her captive.
"Cut it out, Annie," he growled at her, annoyed that she wasn't giving up even once she'd realized his superior strength. "I'm not going to hurt you."
The sound of her name was what seemed to still her for a moment. She stared up at him and he stared down at her, wondering if she had any idea that they had known each other before.
She'd changed. But her hair was still blond, still a mass of shimmering tangles that seemed to go on forever. Her body was still slim and lithe, but there was a strength to her he wouldn't have thought she would ever possess. She was still squirming beneath him, but it was beginning to feel good. He glanced at her cotton blouse, all askew and revealing the soft curve of her breast and a tiny strip of lace.
"Don't," she spat at him fiercely.
He looked up. Her face was older, naturally. The crystal blue eyes he remembered so vividly were wary, haunted by pain and struggle she couldn't have dreamed of in her younger days. And she wasn't laughing. In his memories, she was always laughing.
There was no sign of recognition. Didn't anybody remember him? Had he been erased from the minds of an entire community?
Review
And the Destiny Bay Carringtons spread out to Hawaii... I got the book last night and read it without putting it down. I loved the characters Kane Carrington and Annie and there were times in the story where I laughed out loud and the more I thought about it, the more I laughed. I love the romance and reality of the situations throughout the story and the diverse characters within the Carrington family. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this series. It's like Helen Conrad is or has been putting together a quilt, an heirloom where each of her books is a very special and unique piece of that quilt.
About the Author
Helen Conrad is an award-winning, best-selling author (over 15 million books sold) of heart-felt - and often humorous - contemporary romances, most of which are spiced with a little heat. She's published more than 99 romances under various pseudonyms with Harlequin, Silhouette, Mills and Boon, Loveswept, and others.
Helen is currently revamping the best of her backlist, creating the Destiny Bay Romances Series about a rich, influential family living along the Central California Coast, Arizona and the Hawaiian Islands. The Carringtons are good-looking, fast-driving, hard-hitting men and women whose impulses lead them into trouble - and inevitably, into love - every time. SavedBy You is the story of Kane Carrington who returns to Hawaii to settle old scores and revive a lost love.
Giveaway
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