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Nadja's Literary Cappuccino
coming to Freya's Bower in 2008
Detour Ahead
coming to Awe-Struck e-books
November 2008
Hot-shot Chicago prosecuting attorney Traci Steele works tirelessly keeping rapists off the street to prevent other women from suffering the hell she's endured, so she resists her friends' insistence that she take a two month R&R in their California Live Oak condo-until they persuade her to help their rancher friend as a private investigator.
Though he runs the stables at Live Oak, well-muscled mustached wrangler Scot McCord much prefers working with the race horses he trains at his ranch, and he can't believe his old friends have sent a greenhorn female to help him with horse troubles.
The improbable dance between this mismatched pair barely fits in around the escalating suspense of whoever's after Scot's horses. Traci is as tenacious in her sleuthing as she is panicked about her inability to ever love a man. Can Scott succeed in gentling her-like he does his horses-before she runs forever? |
It all seems simple enough: Ukrainian immigrant Nadja Petrov is determined to hold on to her thriving new coffee shop, Nadja's Literary Cappuccino, and Java Beans District Rep Kevin Langley is equally determined to move into town with a Java Beans franchise and run her out of business. She scopes him out, he keeps a watchful eye on her, and the sparring begins. But there are other players involved, and the web of intrigue soon threatens Nadja, her shop and her aunt as well as Kevin, his franchise and his son. Within this caldron simmers a sexual attraction between Nadja and Kevin that catapults them to overcome their fears of intimacy and commitment. Their lovemaking is tender and raw. Can their love survive tragedy, doubts and fire?