About Lea
Barrymire
Lea lives in Western New York with her hubby,
three children, and miscellaneous critters. Before the rugrats, she lived a
life of adventure, following her husband all over Europe with the US military.
She’s slept in a car outside Paris, drove six hours just to see tulips in the
Netherlands, and knocked ash from her shoes at Pompeii. Now she spends her time
in life’s adventures at soccer games, PTA meetings and school plays.
Lea has loved reading from a very young age,
spending many sleepless nights devouring books. Science fiction and paranormal
were her favorite genres to read as a teenager, and that love bled into her
adult life. She started writing during a bout of insomnia, to fill time, and
found it filled a creative void. Now she communes regularly with the characters
in her head and tries not to laugh out loud when they say something funny.
When Lea isn’t reading, writing or corralling
kids, she enjoys watching movies and sciencey shows, or just kicking back and
listening to some music.
Blurb:
Arin Walters
decides that after ending her long-term relationship with her cheating
boyfriend, she needs a vacation in the Montana mountains. She packs her
fly-fishing gear and heads off for a week of relaxation and emotional healing.
Brent and Jared
have been best friends since childhood. The abuse they suffered as children
binds them together. They want a woman to share and build a life with but
they’ve been burned in the past.
When Arin shows
up at their fishing lodge, sparks fly and all three feel the beginning of
something they crave—acceptance and love. Now they must hope that the passion
between them is enough to help them leave the past behind.
Ellora’s Cave http://www.ellorascave.com/angling-for-love.html
Excerpt #
She was still staring when two large
hands ran down her arms. A squeak escaped her before she could swallow the
sound, and she shivered. She turned just in time to find Jared’s face lit with
a wolfish grin. He tried to hide it behind a cough but she had seen the sensual
look shimmering in his eyes.
A trickle of apprehension wormed through
her thoughts. What was she getting herself into? She shouldn’t have started the
flirting thing with this man. He oozed sex and even his innocent looks weren’t
so innocent. Maybe he flirts with all
women. Of course he does. Now what if he thought she was going to hop into
bed with him this week? Was she really willing to do that? On one hand she
seriously wanted to. On the other was the reserved, scared Arin who hadn’t been
with anyone other than Robert.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.” He
didn’t mean a single word and she knew it. With a chuckle, he turned her toward
the window again and stood close behind her. She could feel his body heat
radiating against her back. It would only take a slight lean, an itsy-bitsy
move, for her to be flush against his chest. She felt his breath stir the hairs
at the back of her neck as he whispered, “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”
“Um…yes, it is.” She sidled away from him
and tried not look as if she was retreating. The knowing smile that played
across his lips made it obvious that she didn’t hide it well.
“Do you want to see your room or find
Brent first?”
“I’d like to see my room first, I think.
And honestly, I’d like to grab a snack. I had a little something in Denver but
I was too nervous to eat a proper lunch.” She finally got around to observing
the rest of the floor plan. A few doors led off into unknown areas of the
building, but the thing that caught her eye was the spiral staircase that was
partially hidden behind a large bookcase. She turned questioning eyes toward
Jared. “Cool staircase—where does it lead?”
“That, my dear, goes to the den of
debauchery, better known as the staff quarters.” He laughed. “You won’t get to
see those rooms unless we become much friendlier in the next few days.”
He turned and walked toward the other
side of the room, turning just in time to catch her watching his ass. A grin
spread across his face before he pointed through one of the doorways. “Come
on—I’ll give you the doorway tour and show you to your room.”
She scampered after him, trying in vain
to look as if she’d meant to get caught staring at his behind, again. The perpetual blush she’d
sprouted the first moment she met him must be glaringly obvious. She hoped that
a quick shower and a mental talking-to would get her mind and body to
cooperate. She couldn’t deal with five days of continual embarrassment.
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