Synopsis:
After being left at the altar, California girl Sabrina Tate needs to make a fast getaway. With her famous overbearing parents and the paparazzi hot on her heels, where else is a jilted bride to go to lick her wounds but Alaska? With only her tropical honeymoon clothes in tow, she makes her escape. For two weeks, she’ll live on her own and prove to herself—and her family—that she can make it without a husband.
Zak Forrester is a man on a mission. He’s turned his rugged yet luxurious Alaskan lodge into a hotspot for hunters, all in the hope to make up for a painful event in his past. But when Sabrina—one of the rare women to enter his rugged realm—stumbles into his world, he can’t get rid of her fast enough. He has no time for her yoga, vegetarian meal requests, or Scrabble.
Soon, neither can resist the other, and two hearts collide. With time ticking away, they have to decide where they belong. Is a life in a different world better than being a world apart?
EXCERPT:
He stared down at her
feet. “You’re wearing flip-flops?”
Did the man always state
the obvious or did he want some kind of answer? “Um, yeah,” she said.
“It’s September in
Alaska. Do you know it can snow this time of year?”
It wasn’t like she’d
spent time researching her destination. She had been darn lucky to get
connecting flights without having to overnight anywhere, and although she
didn’t like his tone, she assumed he was trying to be helpful. “I guess I
didn’t know that. But you’re right. Could I buy better footwear somewhere?”
“You’ve just flown to a
village with no road access. You think we have a shopping mall down the
street?” His sarcastic tone scraped along her spine.
Sabrina stopped and
swiveled around. While she appreciated a take-charge kind of man, she wasn’t
about to be bullied. She didn’t need reminders about her bad planning; she was
well aware of her predicament. “You know, I’ve had a long day. In fact, I could
even go so far as to say I’ve had a pretty bad day, and you grilling me about
my clothes and my wish to catch pneumonia just might tip me over the edge.”
With arms crossed over
his Alaska-is-mightier-than-Texas tee shirt, he looked at her as though he
might throw her on the next plane out of here all because of her choice in
footwear. Were all Alaskans so welcoming and rebuffing at the same time? “And
what would happen if you went over the edge?”
Were they talking about
clothes now, or something altogether different? “Maybe it would be best if you
didn’t find out,” Sabrina said. “Once I get warm and my teeth stop chattering,
maybe we can talk more about my unacceptable clothes…or lack thereof.”
He didn’t know how lucky
she was to have any clothes with her at all. She would still be wearing her
wedding dress if she hadn’t left her clothes for the Hawaiian honeymoon in the
limo.
About Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas enjoys a love-hate relationship with Alaska. She lives there with her bush pilot husband and two teenaged sons. When she isn’t reading, writing, or playing board games, she is cheering for her sons at their hockey games and tennis matches.
A reluctant reader as a child, she didn’t become interested in books until her teen years when she discovered historical romance. Now she loves all sub-genres of romance and can’t decide which one is her favorite.
Rebecca earned a bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Alaska and was employed in the airline industry for several years before working in her current position as a program manager in higher education.
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