Title: Wyatt's Guilt
Author: Sara Daniel
Imprint: Finally Ever After
Release Date: 12/07/2012
Genres: M/F, Contemporary Romance Series
Blurb:
Nicole DeMonde’s car breaks
down the moment she returns to her hometown for her brother’s wedding. The cop
who stops to help her is none other than local hottie Wyatt Truman, who slept
with her, then dumped her when they were teens. She has no choice but to accept
his help. However, she knows better than to trust him with her heart twice.
Wyatt is determined to earn
Nicole’s forgiveness and make amends for his callous past. Once he lays eyes on
her, he can’t help wanting a lot more than forgiveness, despite his intention
never to hurt her again.
Just as Wyatt starts
thinking his best intentions are of the forever variety, Nicole decides to work
Wyatt out of her system with a one night stand. Can either of them make peace
with the past in a single weekend, let alone survive with their hearts intact?
Excerpt:
Wyatt touched Nicole’s arm,
trying not to notice her warmth and the electric tingle that shot up his
fingertips. “Can I talk to you privately?”
She aimed her blue eyes
straight at him. Her gaze proved she knew exactly what he was thinking.
“Everything is fine, Wyatt. I never told anyone, and I’m not going to start
now. The only person who might have guessed was my mother.”
“I’m sorry about your mother.”
He closed his eyes briefly, relieved she had no intention of ruining Julianne’s
wedding, embarrassed that the possibility of her doing so even crossed his
mind. Nicole had proven she could move beyond the past. For him to do so, he
had to start with an apology, preferably where no one in their party would
overhear. “Please, come with me.”
He guided her through the
backdoor of the restaurant. Stepping to the side of the building, he turned to
face her. He should have let go of her arm, but somehow speaking came easier
while touching her. “I should have apologized first thing when I saw you this
afternoon, but meeting over your car troubles caught me off-guard.”
“You don’t need to
apologize. I’m over it.”
He shook his head. She might
be willing to let him off easy, but he wasn’t ready to forgive himself. “You
still deserve a formal apology. I am sorry, very sorry. I treated you horribly
fifteen years ago. You have every right to cut off my balls in front of our
families.”
Her gaze shot down to his
crotch and back up. “You’re the first guy I’ve met who’s been willing to put
his testicles on the chopping block for any reason. As I recall, you treated me
fine and gave me exactly what I asked for. Of course, I was so smitten that I
took it pretty hard when you decided you’d had enough of me.”
Great, He’d delivered his
big apology, and now he felt worse than ever. It would have been easier if
she’d vowed never to forgive him. She’d been “smitten”? No apology was strong
enough. And yet knowing she’d felt more for him than pure lust warmed his
lonely soul.
“The point is I wanted you,”
Nicole argued, her shiny black hair swaying emphatically with her words. “I
threw myself at you and gave as good as I got.”
She didn’t deserve any of
the blame. He refused to allow her to share what he alone was responsible for.
“You’re not getting it. I planned to hurt you, and I did.”
“I got my heart broken by
following it and making stupid choices. It happens. I grew up. I got over it.”
She leaned so close to him that he could see violet flecks in her round blue
eyes.
“What I can’t understand, Wyatt, is why you didn’t.”
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Author Bio:
I
write irresistible romance, from sweet to erotic and everything in between. I
battle a serious NASCAR addiction and was once a landlord of two uninvited
squirrels. (The children's book The Bravest Squirrel
Ever by my alter-ego Sara Shafer is the squirrel's fictionalized version of
that experience!) I live my own happily-ever-after romance with my
hero husband.
I am available for public appearances, digital publishing workshops, and guest
blogging. For more information, message me on Facebook
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