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Healing Harts #5
T.J. Kline
Releasing May 10th, 2016
Avon Impulse
The
fifth and (for now) final book in TJ Kline’s Healing Harts series.
Leah McCarran has never had anything
but bad luck in her life, with the exception of her dream job, working as a
therapist for at-risk youth at Heart Fire Ranch. But when her car breaks down
on the side of the road and she finds herself stranded, the playboy who shows
up to help, seems like the last person she can count on.
Gage Granger has risen above the
circumstances of his youth, enough that people believe he has the Midas touch,
especially in business. But when one costly mistake could send his reputation
and his company into ruin, he needs some time to get his head on straight
before he makes a decision that could affect hundreds of lives and heads to see
his brother, near Heart Fire. The last thing he expected to find was a feisty
therapist who needs his help, even if she won’t admit it.
Leah doesn’t want friends. There was
only one person she let close - her high school counselor and the mentor who
not only took her in but changed her life, and then she died. Leah doesn’t want
that kind of hurt again so it’s easier to remain distant. But Gage is making it
difficult. And finding out that he staying next door at Heart Fire Ranch isn’t
making it any easier to avoid the kind man who is worming his way into her
heart.
Gage sees the pain Leah’s trying so
adamantly to hide but neither can help the attraction that begins to develop as
they rescue two abandoned kittens and find they have far more in common than
they believed. Gage helps her to move past her nightmarish past and she helps
him realize that one mistake doesn’t define his worth.
“We should
start over.” Gage held out a hand. “I’m Gage Granger, your neighbor. It’s nice
to meet you.”
Leah bit the
corner of her lip as the horse nudged her hand. “Don’t do that,” she said
quietly. She rubbed her hand over the animal’s face the way Jessie had told her
they liked. “We’re both old enough that we don’t need to pretend we get
do-overs in life.”
“Ah, another
cynic.” He reached out and patted the horse’s neck. The second horse seemed to
take notice and ambled slowly in their direction.
“A realist,”
she corrected. “Another?”
“Like my
brother, or at least, he used to be one.” Gage shrugged but looked back at her,
curiosity clear in his dark eyes. “So, you don’t think you can forgive and
forget? There’s no starting over?”
“Not really.
You can forgive, but it’s a conscious choice. Forgetting something ever happened?
That’s impossible. It’s like saying there’s such a thing as love at first
sight.”
“Next you’re
going to tell me you don’t believe in happily ever after either.” He clucked
his tongue and shook his head with a grin tugging at the corners of his full
lips. “What kind of therapist are you?”
She didn’t
return his smile. “A good one. One who knows what I’m talking about and uses
hard facts to get through to people who’ve see far too much reality in their
daily lives to believe in fairy tales.”
She leaned
one elbow on the railing and faced him. “The people I work with don’t need
illusions. They need coping skills because life isn’t some kind of fantasy.
Most people you meet aren’t good, and they don’t want to help you.”
Gage narrowed
his eyes, trying to see more than what she would allow anyone to see. Leah
wondered for a moment if she should have just kept her mouth shut. There was
something about this man that made her usual calm, reserved demeanor take a
vacation and made her tongue run away without her brain. If she wasn’t careful,
she’d end up telling him her life story, and no one deserved to bear the weight
of that nightmare.
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T. J. Kline was raised competing in rodeos and rodeo queen competitions
since the age of 14, She has thorough knowledge of the sport as well as the
culture involved. She has had several articles about rodeo published in the
past in small periodicals as well as a more recent how-to article for
RevWriter. She is also an avid reader and book reviewer for both Tyndale and
Multnomah.
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