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Hers to Protect(Shores of Indian Lake #11)
By Catherine Lanigan
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 384 Pages
April 1st 2019 by Harlequin Heartwarming
She’s sworn to protect…
But does that include a speeding celebrity?
Violet Hawks is a by-the-books police officer—so when she catches a man speeding, she arrests him. Only, the man is famous race car driver Josh Stevens. To make amends, Josh launches a charm campaign, and it works on the small town…and on Violet. But when Josh is connected to an investigation, Violet begins to wonder—can she trust her instincts when her heart is involved?
Josh had been very young when his parents died, and
even now he could remember the smell of
lavender on his mother’s skin when she held him close. He could hear his
father’s wing tips on the wood stairs when he came home late from work and came
to check on Josh.
“But they left me,” he whispered, feeling wrenched
again straight across his midsection.
He would give the world to feel his mother’s hug
again. And hear her voice telling him that she loved him. Even his father’s
seldom-heard laugh would be a gift. Just one more time.
That was why he drove so very, very fast. He felt
closest to them when he pushed the limits of speed. As if he could almost touch
them. He had no intention of crashing, but he also couldn’t resist the urge to
go just a little faster.
Today, when he’d been racing down the country
road, he’d been thinking about his mother. He owned a car that went nearly
three hundred miles an hour, but it was no Rolls-Royce turbofan engine that
could hit supersonic speeds of over seven hundred miles per hour.
Josh hung his head, refusing to believe he was
teary-eyed, but it had been happening a lot lately. He didn’t want anyone to
see his tears. Especially no one in his employ. Not Paul. Certainly not Harry.
Officer Hawks had been right. He didn’t have
family and very few real friends, except for Austin and Katia McCreary, and
when he was younger, his foster brother Diego.
He pulled out of the police station parking lot
and turned south on Maple Boulevard, suddenly curious about what exactly
Officer Violet Hawks had meant by family. Did she have a husband? Kids?
The other side of the beautiful boulevard was
planted with its flowering pear trees, daffodils, tulips and irises. He hadn’t
paid much attention to its beauty when he’d driven down it last time he was in
town to visit Austin and Katia who lived at the end of the street. It was too
late to drive the three hours back to Indianapolis now.
He was more than exhausted. He couldn’t think all
that straight. He’d go to Austin’s house and beg a room for the night.
Across from the station was a huge Victorian
house. He quickly hit the brake and moved the Bugatti to the curb.
Was that a squad car in the drive?
He couldn’t believe it.
Slowly, he backed the Bugatti so that he could see
down the driveway.
“I’ll be…”
Sure enough. Officer Hawks’ squad car was parked at
the very end of the drive.
“So this is where you live? Nearly across the
street from the police station? Keeping your head in the game, Officer? Always
on call? Ever ready?”
Josh hadn’t the first clue why he was interested
in his arresting officer. Other than the fact that she’d brought back memories
of his parents. Like an old song that played strong and melodic in his head. As
much as Violet was focused on her career, Josh sensed that same kind of big
heartedness and warmth he remembered his mother having. There was a softness in
Violet’s eyes that he read as compassion, and that look made him pause. Made
him think. And feel things he hadn’t felt in a really long time.
Josh had spent most of his adult life chasing the
next win. He hadn’t stopped to consider what he really wanted.
“Belonging.”
The word rushed out of him like a riptide from the
bottom of his heart. To be important to just one person. What would that be
like? What would it be like to walk into a room and have Violet’s face light up
just because he was there? Not the blaze of fame like he saw in a fan’s face,
or the need in those dependent on him, but love.
Was that what he wanted?
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About the Author
Catherine Lanigan is the international bestselling and award-winning author of over forty-five published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into over twenty-four languages. Lanigan was tasked by the NotMYkid foundation to pen a collection of compelling and informative true stories of teen addicts. Ms. Lanigan’s SHORES OF INDIAN LAKE series for HARLEQUIN HEARTWARMING includes LOVE SHADOWS, HEART’S DESIRE , A FINE YEAR FOR LOVE, KATIA’S PROMISE, FEAR OF FALLING, SOPHIE’S PATH, PROTECTING THE SINGLE MOM, FAMILY OF HIS OWN, HIS BABY DILEMMA, RESCUED BY THE FIREFIGHTER and HER TO PROTECT (2019).
Ms. Lanigan is a frequent speaker at literary functions and book conventions as well as inspiring audiences with her real stories of angelic intervention from her Angel Tales series of books. She is an outspoken advocate for domestic violence and abuse and was honored by The National Domestic Violence Hotline in Washington, D.C. She has been a guest on numerous radio programs including “Coast to Coast” and on television interview and talk show programs as well as blogs, podcasts and online radio interview programs. She writes a monthly blog for Heartwarmingauthors.blogspot.com.
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