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Synopsis
Can love be more than a four-letter word?
Lissa Blanc is a painter on a mission. She filters the world
through a lens of color, line, and form and hides her ambition behind a
delicate smirk that lets her critics believe life comes easy. To her, art isn’t
what she sees. It’s what she feels. Few know that behind the glitz of a
prodigious upbringing, she’s driven to emerge from the shadow of painful
memories that insist she’ll never be a renowned talent in her own right.
Cole Rathlen is a photographer on the mend. A crippling
grief has stifled his once-rising career and compromised his creative
instincts. Knowing he can’t stagnate forever, he seeks a twisted absolution in
the form of a woman whose paintings give life to the emotions he won’t let
himself imagine, let alone feel.
When the two partner for a prestigious project that will
pull them from the mountains of Colorado to the palaces of India, Lissa quickly
realizes that more than diverging ideals hinder their search for success and
salvation. Was Cole’s life upended by a tragic but unavoidable choice or
something more sinister? While Lissa can’t delve into the mystery but not the
man, Cole can’t resist a tenacious soul that refuses to leave him chained. As
the truth closes in on a project finally sprouting wings, will Lissa sacrifice
her chance at success to set Cole free? Or will Cole shrug the chains of
lingering regrets to prove that those who love the most, love again.
Excerpt:
Someone made a mistake in teaching you life is easy. Cole’s words had hit like well-aimed
arrows, and not of the Cupid variety. At least Lissa knew which camp he fell
into. The naysayers tended toward one of two options—push Lissa away or pull
Lissa close. The pushers openly mocked her “illegitimate” success. The pullers
beguiled her in an effort to see how much of that “luck”—or connections or
money or opportunity—could rub off on them.
Cole was a clear pusher, and frankly, she liked those better. At
least they were honest.
A hank of hair chose that moment to abandon the clip that couldn’t
quite contain her pony tail. Ruler straight despite a healthy dedication to
volumizing shampoo, her hair liked to slip from its confines and lay flat
against her head in an antagonizing refusal to hold body. She imagined her
looks mattered about as much to Cole as couponing did to Donald Trump, but
hell, she had nothing to lose and everything to gain. After the disaster in the
driveway, she could at least try to make herself presentable.
Her trek to the spare bathroom two rooms down took her past Cole’s
bedroom door across the hall. His rumpled bed sat in silence. Nothing personal
hinted at the room’s inhabitant. A dresser and two night stands held a clock
and a box of tissues between them. No pictures or knickknacks, not even a stray
piece of clothing or a random shoe littered Cole’s studied order, dimmed by
heavy shades that blocked the rising sun from cheering the space.
Earthy scents of pine and sandalwood filled her nostrils. Despite
his obvious efforts to disappear within the emptiness, the room bore his mark.
The hard edges and sanded planks had absorbed his essence without permission.
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Libby Rice Bio:
Before becoming a writer, Libby was first
a mechanical engineer in the data acquisition industry (voltmeter anyone?).
Preferring writing to technical design, Libby headed to law school and
eventually practiced patent law for several enterprising years (patent
application covering a voltmeter anyone?). Finally realizing that technology
just wasn’t her bag, she traded the voltmeters for alpha heroes and the women
who love them.
Today, Libby writes contemporary romances from the foot of
the Rocky Mountains, where she lives with her husband, a bona fide rocket
scientist (he stuck with the voltmeters!). When not writing, Libby loves good
food, even better wine, and traveling the world in search of the next great
story.
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