A Christmas Proposal
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Kayla Anders, betrayed, broke and unemployed, heads into the mountains to regroup… involvement with a man is not on her radar, but when she discovers she’s sharing the secluded lodge with a sexy Scotsman…she vows she’ll never walk blindly into another relationship, especially with a man carrying the personal baggage that Jamie so obviously does…
Jamie Barron, burnt in a bitter divorce, has sworn off involvement with any woman on the rebound of a failed relationship… but when his ex wants to reconcile, he makes Kayla an offer she can’t refuse … and they both try to fight an attraction neither can deny…
Excerpt:
Kayla looked at him, her head on one side.
Jamie Barron.
The name suited him.
She found it too easy to imagine this giant of a man sitting on a huge seat in the hall of some great stone castle surrounded by his people. He possessed the aura of a leader, a man people would look up to.
“Am I meant to know you?” she asked, amazed by her flight of fancy.
“Would you be Gemma’s friend, Kayla Anders? Come to spend three months at the lodge?”
“You know Gemma Halliday?”
“Aye. In a manner of speaking.” He nodded, those golden eyes sparkling.
When her friend had suggested Kayla stay at the Skye High Lodge for the rest of the summer until she had time to get her life back on track, she’d grabbed at the life-line like a drowning sailor. With no job, her belongings turfed onto the pavement by her ex-fiancé, and no family, there was no way she could refuse Gemma’s offer.
“You’re the caretaker of the lodge?” she asked, even as she guessed the answer.
“Aye, I’m your landlord for the next little while,” he said grinning at her, his golden eyes glittering with amusement.
And I likened him to a hairy ape? Kayla cringed. Of all the rotten luck.
It was the perfect end to a sucky year—an ex-fiancé whose morals were little better than a sex-crazed hound dog, a career flushed down the toilet, and now she was committed to spending three months in close association with a man who resembled the next-of-kin to god-damned Yeti.