Bent Creek Longing

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>When pretending to be in love turns real . . .</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Drake</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Coming back to Bent Creek wasn't supposed to be complicated.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I came home to help my brother Luke with the ranch and to escape the pressure of working for my dad. I didn't mean to find myself kissing Christa Appleby the girl I couldn't stop thinking about in high school.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Christa needs a fake boyfriend to save face in front of her ex I step up. It's easy enough to pretend for a while. To keep things light. To keep my heart out of it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only it doesn't stay pretend for long.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And all of my careful self-control goes out the window when danger comes back to town.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Christa</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Drake's offer to play along seemed harmless until I find myself noticing every glance and every touch as if it's starting to mean something to me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But before I can make sense of what's happening between us strange things start happening in Bent Creek. Someone breaks into the town warehouse a new neighbor seems too interested in me and Luke is finding evidence of trespassers on his ranch.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By the time the town's Summer Carnival arrives the tension has shown me a side of Drake I'm not sure I like. But when the real danger reveals itself Drake is the only one who can help.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marybeth</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All I want is for our town to go back to normal after the kidnapping that happened last month. Things seem to be going well and I even manage to get my brother Luke to go on a date.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the calm doesn't last for long.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And this time it feels as if my family is in the crosshairs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If only we can figure out who's behind everything that's been happening in town before it's too late.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you love cowboys family drama small western towns filled with secrets and sweet romance with a touch of suspense this book is for you!</strong></p><p></p>