Kathleen Witte is a down-to-earth girl. She has to be, with the family ranch on the verge of success. After seven months of keeping it all together by swearing off men, however, Kathleen needs a bit of fun in the sun. Waking up with a husband she can’t remember isn’t how she planned to blow off steam.
The last thing Jackson Taylor wants in
his life is a down-to-earth girl. He has four weeks of freedom in which to find
his birth mother. He’s done well avoiding commitment until now, so when he
wakes up on a Mexican beach with Kathleen his first reaction is curiosity. When
he spies the matching wedding rings on their left hands curiosity turns to
concern.
Neither Jackson nor Kathleen want to
stay married, but when her family shows up, they have no choice. Once back in
Texas, however, can they keep this all-business marriage from turning into an
all-consuming love?
Excerpt
The earth
was moving. And not in a good way.
Kathleen
Witte reached out, trying to grab on to something. Anything.
But her hands met only with air.
She
shifted, and her shoulder dug into damp sand.
Where was she? Her eyes flew
open, and she winced at the bright sunlight.
The
beach? What happened to the villa? And her. . .Sweet Mary, Mother of God, what
happened to her clothes? Quickly,
Kathleen flipped over so she was laying stomach-down on the sand. She shivered as a splash of water reached her
feet. Looking left and then right, Kathleen scanned the area. No white dress. No strappy sandals. Had they been washed out with the tide? Had she come to the beach naked? No.
She wouldn't have.
She took a deep breath.
Her clothes had to be here somewhere.
Maybe she had decided to go skinny-dipping. She was in Mexico, after all. What better way to blow off a little steam
than with some late night skinny-dipping?
The villa included a private beach, it wasn't as if she'd run into
anyone. The old Kathleen would have balked.
Said no with a quiet smile and watched as her sisters had all the
fun. The new and improved Kathleen wasn't
leaving life to her sisters, and God knew she had plenty of steam to blow off.
So maybe that was all this was. Blowing off a little steam with a naked swim in
the warm Pacific. Colorful lights and a heavy bass rhythm filled her heard
before everything went dark. The feel of a man's hands are her waist, leading
her around the dance floor echoed in her memory.
With
sudden certainty she knew she hadn't spent the night alone and that she'd not
been innocently skinny dipping last night. Oh, God.
Author: Kristina Knight
Book: What a Texas Girl Wants
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Publisher: Crimson Romance
ISBN-13: 9781440544637
Genre: Contemporary
Heat Level: Sensual, Sex on the Page
Format: E-Book in Multiple Formats
Author Blog(s): http://www.kristiknight.blogspot.com
http://www.wordwranglers.blogspot.com
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