The Return of Brody McBride
The McBrides Book One
By: Jennifer Ryan
Releasing March 4th, 2014
Blurb
The black sheep of Fallbrook is
back … and he's in for the surprise of his life.
Former bad boy, now-decorated
Army Ranger Brody McBride is home and on a mission: Find the woman he never
should have left behind and right the wrong he did eight years ago.
When the man she loved broke
her heart and skipped town, Rain Evans picked up the pieces. But along with
heartbreak, Brody left her something infinitely better than she could have
imagined: two beautiful daughters. One she gave birth to, and the other she
rescued from the woman who helped destroy her relationship with Brody.
Brody is shocked to discover
he's a father, and he's more determined than ever to win back Rain and protect
his girls. Can they rekindle the love they once shared and become the family
they were always meant to be? Or will a danger from their past return and ruin
everything?
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Excerpt:
Brody walked into the dining room again, Owen at
his back. Rain sat beside Pop at the head of the table. They talked about work
and a repair job Rain started that day. Brody placed the bakery box on the
table and lifted the lid. Dawn and Autumn oohed and aahed over the beautifully
designed cupcakes.
Rain stood and tried to pass him. Just because
he wanted to touch her, he put his hand on her arm to stop her. “Where you
going, sweetheart?” He almost smiled when she glared.
“To get some plates and napkins. You’ve never
seen two little girls make a mess like they do with cake and frosting.” A
glimmer of a smile touched her rosy lips.
“Yeah?” He gave her a smile, letting his hand
slide down her arm until he took her hand. “I bet they’ve both demolished a
cake on their birthdays.”
When her gaze came up to meet his, it was plain
as day. She regretted every birthday he’d missed.
“When they turned one, I made them each a little
round cake and let them go to town. They ended up with more cake on them than
in them.”
Linking his fingers with hers, he squeezed her
hand to let her know he understood everything she wasn’t saying. “You loved
watching every minute of it.”
“Almost,” she whispered and pulled free, fleeing
into the kitchen. When he looked back at Owen, he caught his brother’s nod of
approval. He’d connected with her for a second. Now, all he had to do was keep
at it, until she no longer wanted to break the connection, but build on it.
Dessert became an orchestrated affair. Rain
directed the girls on subjects to talk about, ranging from how they were doing
in the second grade, about their teachers and friends, to the things they liked
to do in their spare time. It was obvious the girls were not only sisters, but
best friends. They did everything together, Dawn usually in the leader’s role.
The only times Rain interrupted or stopped them
from telling something was when it had to do with Roxy.
Unable to let things go, he had to get Rain
alone if he wanted to find out what happened after he left town.
“Dad . . .”
God, how he loved hearing them call him Dad.
“Do you have a computer? Uncle Owen said you
have a company, and you’ll work from your house.”
He was getting used to the way Autumn looked to
her sister to be the speaker for them both. He didn’t miss the conspiratorial
look they shared when they asked about his computer. “I have a laptop and a
desk computer. Why? Do you guys know how to use one?”
“Mom got us one for school and to play on some
kid’s websites. We have some games,” Dawn began.
“It was so slow,” Autumn added. “Mom got it from
the secondhand store and now the screen is fuzzy and half the time it doesn’t
boot up right and we get weird errors.”
“Can we use yours?” Dawn asked, finishing both
girls’ request.
Brody listened to the girls, but watched Rain. She
couldn’t afford a new computer. An easy guess. What he didn’t get, she made a
good living at the garage. Paying for things for the girls took up a good
portion of her paycheck, he assumed. She had her inheritance from her family,
the money she hadn’t used for college. Either she was leaving that money in the
bank for the girls to go to school later, or it was already gone. He wanted to
talk to her about the money he had, the money he owed her for child support he
should have paid. Now wasn’t the time, and throwing it in her face he could and
would buy the girls a new computer wouldn’t score him any points.
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Author Info:
JENNIFER RYAN, author of The Hunted Series, writes romantic
suspense and contemporary small-town romances.
Jennifer lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. When she isn’t writing
a book, she’s reading one. Her obsession with both is often revealed in the
state of her home, and how late dinner is to the table. When she finally leaves
those fictional worlds, you’ll find her in the garden, playing in the dirt and
daydreaming about people who live only in her head, until she puts them on
paper.
Please visit her website at www.jennifer-ryan.com for information
about upcoming releases.
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