How
can she forgive him for what he didn't do?
SAVED BY THE FIREFIGHTER
Templeton Cove #6
Rachel Brimble
Releasing Nov 1st, 2016
Harlequin Superromance
How can
she forgive him for what he didn't do?
Photographer Izzy Cooper feels as
frozen as her pictures. Trent Palmer might be the hottest firefighter in
Templeton Cove, but she can never face him again. Not after he failed to save
her brother. But when they're forced together by a calendar shoot, the sparks
between them are undeniable.
Izzy knows it's not fair to blame
Trent for the tragedy, but opening herself up to loss again isn't something
she's prepared to do, no matter how determined Trent is to show her that pain
is part of life and that love—their love—can make any suffering bearable.
She carefully
climbed down the rocks, one hand steadying her as she made her slow descent.
Trent waited, needing to know she was safe on the sand before he could leave.
He wanted to
protect his family and loved ones––to never fail someone again as he’d failed
his baby sister. In Izzy, he saw his future. Why her, he wasn’t sure he could
ever explain, but she mattered. Deeply.
Yet, with
every day that passed, she slipped further away from him and he wished to God
it didn’t hurt so much.
He briefly
closed his eyes before opening them again, ready to walk on. Walk away. He
glanced in her direction once last time as she leapt from the final rock, her
hand protectively clasped around the camera at her breasts. Looking up, she
held up a finger toward him as though asking him to wait for her. Surprise
turned to pathetic relief as she jogged across the sand, her long blonde hair
swinging back and forth in its ponytail. As she got closer, the more Trent
tensed.
It had been
over a week since he’d seen her. The beach party a bigger disaster than he
could’ve ever anticipated.
She came up
the steps toward him, tucking some fallen hair behind her ear. He noted the way
she tried to smile for him, but it didn’t quite meet her eyes. “Hi.”
He pushed his
hands into the pockets of his work trousers. “Hi.”
Slightly out
of breath, she exhaled through pursed lips and stared into his eyes. “I think I
owe you an apology.”
She might as
well as said she loved him. The pleasure that jolted through him probably wouldn’t
have been any less powerful. He dragged his gaze from hers to look blindly
toward a spot over her shoulder. “For what?”
“For the way
I spoke to you at the beach last week.” She sighed. “Won’t you at least look at
me? You know apologizing doesn’t exactly come as second nature to me.”
He turned.
The trepidation and pleading in her gaze teemed with the blush at her cheeks,
tugged at his chest. “I get it, Iz. It’s fine.”
“What do you
get?”
“You need to
blame me for Robbie’s death. You’ll only ever look at me and see a firefighter
now. The man who couldn’t save your brother. You’ll never just see me. A guy
who really likes you.”
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and Romance Writers of America, and was selected to mentor the Superromance finalist of So You Think You Can Write 2014 contest. When she isn’t writing, you’ll find Rachel with her head in a book or walking the beautiful English countryside with her family. Her dream place to live is Bourton-on-the-Water in South West England.
She likes nothing more than connecting and chatting with her readers and fellow romance writers. Rachel would love to hear from you!
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