Welcome! How about a taste of my new release? It's back to Pine Grove. Meet some of your favorite characters again as you rub elbows with the folks of Pine Grove, a small town in upstate New York, where people can be so friendly, some might call it nosy.
Here's a taste of the book - one of my favorite scenes:
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Flint
closed his project file. While he’d never buy a mansion on the profits from
McKay Press, he and his brother lived comfortably in Pine Grove. His parents
had sold the business and their house to their sons when they moved to Arizona.
Flint and
Marty renovated the place and took a business loan from the bank to upgrade
their equipment and expand. Flint had put Marty in charge of new accounts while
he took care of tried-and-true customers and maintained the machinery. The
partnership worked. The brothers, separated by five years, stayed out of each
other’s way. In their spare time, they joined the volunteer fire corps.
“So? Did
Miss High-and-Mighty tell you what to do with the store or tell you to fuck
off?” The slow drawl of his younger brother, Marty, annoyed him.
“Don’t
call her that. She was nice, real nice.”
“I bet.
So why’d you come home pissed?”
“Shut up,
Marty.”
“Yeah,
yeah, Flint. When pigs can fly, when the worm turns, and when hell freezes
over, you’ll get a call from Miss Cassandra Wells.”
Seeing
Cassie had jolted Flint. Could she be more stunning than she’d been at sixteen?
Hell yeah. She’d exuded an energy from her expression, the way she’d moved, and
those eyes. Damn those eyes. They were the clearest blue, like the Caribbean
Sea. Her hair still had a reddish glint, too. Being in her presence had turned
him on. Until she sloughed off the importance of the store. As heartless as she
was beautiful. He shuddered to think she’d turned her back on her past.
The phone
interrupted his thoughts.
“McKay
Press. Flint McKay speaking.”
“Hey,
Flint.”
“Oh, hi,
Grey.” Damn, if there was anyone he didn’t want to talk to, it was Grey
Andrews.
“Rumor
has it you had dinner with Cassie Wells.”
“There is
truth to the rumor.”
“Great.
So? When is she coming to take care of the store?”
“Well, we
didn’t exactly work out a date yet.” Flint glanced at the sky, asking for
forgiveness for one of the biggest lies of his life.
“Why
not?”
“You
know, performers. Schedules. Stuff.” Sweat broke out on his forehead.
“Oh.
Okay. I hope she’s coming soon. Town council’s getting antsy. Keep me in the
loop.”
“Sure
thing, Grey.” Flint put down his phone and wiped his palm over his face.
“You’re digging
the hole deeper,” Marty said, lounging against the doorjamb of Flint’s office.
“I know,
I know.”
“Not
ready to give up on her, are you?”
“I just
saw her this week. Crap. Give the woman some time. She’s real busy. It’s not
like she’s sitting on her butt all day eating candy. She’ll come around. You’ll
see.” Hmm, second biggest lie of his life.
“Is that
what she told you?”
“Never
mind what she told me.”
Marty
shot his brother a sly grin. “Yeah, right. Like there’s anything between you
and her anymore.”
“None of
your business. Don’t you have calls to return or something?”
“I’m going,
I’m going.” Marty held up his palm. “Hell, you can lie to me all you want,
Flint. But don’t lie to yourself.”
With
those words, Marty slipped away. Flint stared out the window. There were Chipping
Sparrows at the bird feeder.
Marty was right. Lying to others was bad enough, but lying to yourself was
worse. He sighed and turned his focus to the computer.
His cell
rang. “McKay Press. Flint McKay speaking.”
“Flint?”
A small voice barely audible whispered his name.
“Cassie?”
Well, shit. Pigs can
fly, worms have turned, and hell has frozen over!
Here's a bit about the book:
After sixteen years setting records at the box office, winning
Tony Awards, and rising like the brightest star in the sky, stardom no longer
appeals to Cassandra Wells. At 32, she wants to trade in her greasepaint for a new
life. The first step is escaping the people controlling her. Would old
friendships rekindled, and secrets revealed allow Cassie to rewrite the stars?
It's book six of the Pine Grove series, but a true stand-alone and only $3.99 for the ebook.
Find the ebook and paperback versions here:
AMAZON U.K.
BARNES & NOBLE
AMAZON CANADA
AMAZON AUSTRALIA
