Past Tents

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Clay Meadows runs a fast mile but that hasn't helped him catch the one who got away.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>His jam is teaching Shakespeare coaching track and camping in the mountains. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The last thing he wants is a scaredy cat art teacher with wild blond hair and devilish charm joining him on the Green Valley High senior retreat. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Or does he?</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>When his lifelong crush and best friend's sister is assigned as his co-chaperone Clay sees an opportunity.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>He'll cure her fear of bugs bears and flimsy tents. She'll fall in love with the wilderness. He </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>won't</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> fall in love in the process. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Even in close quarters-and a shared tent-Clay vows to keep his school crush firmly where it belongs-in the past.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Until she edges open a crack in his heart and allows him to believe she likes what she sees. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Ally Dalbotten is stubbornly self-sufficient and determined to protect her heart from unreliable men.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>She hates camping. And dirt. And wild animals. And the wilderness for that matter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The last thing she needs is the hottie of the English department revealing his Clark Kent alter-ego and flexing his camping muscles-along with his pecs.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>But under the façade of a man who runs from commitment Ally finds a vulnerable soul with a secret he's carried for years.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Ally has a choice-risk that Clay is another guy destined to break her heart...or trust that he's the one who will love her forever.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Is true love only past tense or could it be the future?</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Past Tents is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #4 in the Teachers' Lounge series Green Valley Chronicles Penny Reid Book Universe.</em></p><p><br></p>