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Title:
Sunset at Lake Crane
Series:
Livingston Valley #1
Author:
Casey Hagen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: January 12, 2016
BLURB
Love, truth, and pain lie buried beneath the Sunset at
Lake Crane . . .
Faced with a blackmailer’s ultimatum, 19-year-old Erynn O’Neal protects her lover by disappearing from his life. Brokenhearted, she vanishes—and takes a life-altering secret with her.
Grant Alexander crossed the line when he took former student, Erynn O’Neal, as his own a mere two months after her high school graduation. Knowing the truth revealed would shred his career and reputation, he accepted the risks in exchange for the promise of a lifelong love. A heartbeat later, Erynn abandoned him without a word.
Years pass as Grant and Erynn lead separate lives–he as a reclusive author, she as an ambitious reporter. Yet, despite scarred hearts, true love lost is never forgotten, and Grant devises a way to draw Erynn back into his sphere of passion. Their aching hearts begin a tentative détente, but old jealousies flare, devastating truths come to light, and Grant and Erynn must resurrect and overcome the painful secrets of the past if they’re ever to love again.
Faced with a blackmailer’s ultimatum, 19-year-old Erynn O’Neal protects her lover by disappearing from his life. Brokenhearted, she vanishes—and takes a life-altering secret with her.
Grant Alexander crossed the line when he took former student, Erynn O’Neal, as his own a mere two months after her high school graduation. Knowing the truth revealed would shred his career and reputation, he accepted the risks in exchange for the promise of a lifelong love. A heartbeat later, Erynn abandoned him without a word.
Years pass as Grant and Erynn lead separate lives–he as a reclusive author, she as an ambitious reporter. Yet, despite scarred hearts, true love lost is never forgotten, and Grant devises a way to draw Erynn back into his sphere of passion. Their aching hearts begin a tentative détente, but old jealousies flare, devastating truths come to light, and Grant and Erynn must resurrect and overcome the painful secrets of the past if they’re ever to love again.
PURCHASE
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EXCERPT
He stood in
front of his desk, tension radiating from the ri-gidity of his shoulders when
he asked in a rough voice, “What’s his name?” At the change in Grant’s voice,
Brewster sat up on his bed and glanced back and forth between them.
“Avery.”
“You love
him?”
She turned
to him, hoping he would get the point when she said, “I do.”
She saw it.
The flash of hurt before he masked it. “So it’s se-rious?”
“We own a
home together.”
He shook his
head. “That’s not an answer.”
She held her
hands up, palms out. “It’s the only one I have.”
He stalked
her, a predatory gleam in his eye. She knew the look—in the right situation,
that look alone could get her half-way to a mind-shattering orgasm. Something
she hadn’t experi-enced since him. Talk about the wrong time to acknowledge
that only he had the power to turn her inside out with pleasure, almost to the
point of pain.
“And what
about us?”
Her heart
tumbled in her chest. She held eye contact. She needed him to understand. So
that no matter how close he got, no matter what he did, she would not back
down. “There is no us.”
“We kissed,”
he whispered. His eyes locked on her mouth. She struggled to keep still and not
squirm under his intense stare.
“You kissed
me. There’s a difference.”
“You kissed
me back.” He laughed without humor. “There’s something. At some point, we’ll
have to address it.”
She took a
deep breath and tried another tactic. “Aren’t you seeing someone? I mean, you
went somewhere Saturday night, a sleepover.”
He smirked
at her. “I see someone.”
“So it’s not
serious?” The words were out before she thought about what she had done, and
his smile grew. She’d showed an interest. She’d screwed up, and his smug
expression said he was celebrating his victory.
“I don’t do
serious.”
His tone
invited no argument, but the reporter in her wanted to know. So did the woman.
“Why?”
“I just
don’t.”
It was her
turn to smirk at him. “Now who’s full of it?”
“Don’t,” he
bit out.
“Can’t
handle it?”
With
surprising speed, he spun toward her. He leaned his face within inches of hers,
the muscle along his jaw jumping. “Can you, Erynn? Can you handle it?”
“Absolutely.”
She stood her ground, leaning toward him with almost as much aggression as he’d
leveled at her.
“I don’t do
serious because—” He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again she saw
more agony in those their depths than she thought possible. “I’ll never give
another woman enough of me that she has the power to gut me when she walks
away. Not. Ever. Again.”
AUTHOR BIO
Casey Hagen
is a debut contemporary romance author releasing her first book, Falling in
Fiji, in October. She writes her stories from the dense, green wilderness of
the Delaware National Forest, Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania. She’s a born and
raised Vermont native with Ben & Jerry’s in her heart and real Vermont
maple syrup pumping through her veins.
Over the
years, Casey has dabbled in a wide variety of professions. She worked in the
States Attorney’s office, created beautiful works of art as a florist, slaved
to the public in retail, taught preschool (and potty trained eleven
two-year-olds at the same time), and finally, she owned and operated her own
residential cleaning business for over a decade. She is also the new Vice
President of the Penn Jersey Women Writers Guild.
Casey is the
proud mother of three girls, two of which are successful college students…yay!
She resides with her youngest daughter, husband, and two cats. Her days are
spent in her new office that she proudly admits they would need dynamite to
blast her out of! When she’s not working she can be found chasing after her
youngest with a camera (much to her youngest daughter’s embarrassment) or on
the golf course with her real life hero!
AUTHOR LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaseyHagenAuth
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/caseyhagenauth/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/caseyhagenauthor/
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