When
Love Happens
Ribbon Ridge # 3
Ribbon Ridge # 3
By: Darcy Burke
Releasing May 26th, 2015
Avon Impulse
Blurb
In a town as small as
Ribbon Ridge and with a family as large as the Archers, even the best kept
secrets don’t stay buried for long...
Tori Archer is married…well,
on paper anyway. She hasn’t actually seen her husband since the disastrous
morning after their impulsive Vegas wedding. The memories of their intense
passion may still make her weak in the knees, but Tori knows their marriage was
a mistake.
After six months filming
abroad, television producer Sean Hennessy wants nothing more than to track down
his sexy, captivating wife and get her into bed… fast. So when his boss sends
him to Oregon to persuade the famous Archer sextuplets-the former stars of a reality
TV show-to do a reunion special, Sean sees the perfect chance to win Tori back.
Only, Tori wants nothing
to do with him and is determined to push him away. But their attraction is as
hot as ever and Sean will do anything to prove their relationship was more than
just a fling…because he knows that when real love happens, it changes
everything.
Bollocks. Sean would rather jump right back on a plane to Europe and the
shitfest he’d just left than go to Oregon. But maybe, just maybe, Mike didn’t mean what Sean
thought he meant. Portland had a rousing film and television scene. There could
be any number of projects in need of his services. “Why?”
Mike readjusted his sunglasses
atop his dark blond head. “Dale came up with an idea he’s completely in love with
and you’re the man to make it happen. He wants a ‘Where Are They Now’ special about
the Archers. Following up on the sextuplets America fell in love with fifteen
years ago is a great angle, but since one of them committed suicide, he thinks
it’s
ratings gold.”
Sean’s stomach dropped clear
into the lower level parking garage. “I am not the man to
make this happen, Mike.” In fact, he was about the last man who could
make it happen.
Mike leaned his hip against the
counter and crossed his arms. “Why not? You’re married to one of the
sisters. You have the perfect in.”
Yeah, they were married, but for
how long? The last time he’d talked to his wife—via email of course—she’d mentioned the D word.
Sean hadn’t responded. He’d hoped they’d find a way to make it work, but after so many months apart,
piss-poor communication, and then her suggestion that they just call it quits,
he wasn’t sure he had any fight left in him.
“It’s not been much of a
marriage. In fact, we’re probably splitting up.” Hell, they’d been split up since
their wedding day. He’d seen her once, visiting her in San Francisco before he’d left for
Europe, only to have her shut him out cold.
“If it’s not much of a marriage,
why is her picture on your fridge?” Mike nodded toward a photo of Tori at the
wedding chapel in Vegas. God, she was beautiful. Her auburn hair hung to her
breasts in gentle waves that she’d painstakingly curled before the ceremony, her
blue-green eyes shone with anticipation. Getting married had been a lark, but
they’d
both agreed it had felt right. And it had. Until the next morning . . .
“Because I’ve been in Europe the
last six months.” Sean pulled the picture down and shoved it in a drawer. “Look,
I know you think I can make this show happen with Tori, but I’ve got no
advantage there.”
Their marriage had been over
before it had even started. Her brother had killed himself the morning after
their wedding, and she’d been understandably devastated. Her grief had
completely eclipsed their joy and robbed her of any desire to make their
marriage work. Fast forward seven months and it was time to call it what it
was: a mistake.
Mike uncrossed his arms and took
another drink of beer. “I’m sorry things aren’t working out with you guys, but you know Dale won’t give a shit. He’s got a hard-on for this special. You know how he is when he’s got his mind
set on something.”
Yeah, he did. Dale was an utterly
immovable object. As well as a massive wanker. “What happens if I don’t deliver?” When, not if.
Mike glanced out the window and
when his gaze returned to Sean’s, it held a glimmer of regret. “I’ll have to let
you go. As it is, I have to let someone go, and it’s between you and Hollis.”
“Hey, I’ve got seniority,” Sean
said. Hollis had only been with the company a little over a year. “Just let her
go. It’s a no brainer, right?” She was a bundle of ideas and energy, fairly
fresh out of school, and absolutely bonkers.
“It is for me—I’d choose you in a
heartbeat. She’s a micromanaging nightmare. But it isn’t up to me. You’re both getting
projects that are do or die. Whoever delivers first or best gets to keep their
job.”
Do or die. No ambiguity there.
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Author Info
Darcy Burke is the USA Today
bestselling author of hot, action-packed historical and sexy, emotional
contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a
happily-ever-after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved
him, with exceedingly poor illustrations.
A native
Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming
husband, their two hilarious kids-who each seem to have inherited the writing
gene in some form-and two Bengal cats. In her "spare" time Darcy is a
serial volunteer enrolled in a 12-step program where one learns to say
"no," but she keeps having to start over. Her happy places are
Disneyland and Labor Day weekend at the Gorge.
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