Authors: Jessica Pine

Held: A New Adult Romance (25 page)

A popped Achilles tendon stole Clayton McNeal’s football scholarship, and even his back-up plan to be a carpenter fell apart when the bottom dropped out of the housing market. It's dropped out of his double-wide trailer, too, and if something doesn't change soon, he's going to end up homeless. On top of that, his love life has degenerated to the point where he's doing the walk of shame through the same neighborhoods every week and his friend Steve's latest 'business proposition' looks like the kind of thing that can land a guy in a whole heap of trouble.

When he answers a job application for a small antique store he's startled to find the girl he knew only as 'Lindsay' working behind the counter. She's secretive, closed-off and stubborn, but even she can't deny that there's something there. And one-night stands have a hell of way of coming back to bite you.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks as always to my family, for being willing to put up with the same meals over and over when I was too brainfried from this book to figure out what to feed them. Extra special thanks to my sister for Facebooking and general book pimping above and beyond the call of duty.

A big thank you to Nadia Simonenko, author of Lost, for offering invaluable marketing advice at a time when I thought I’d never be able to dig myself out of the Amazon doldrums.

And thank you most of all to you for reading - a book without readers is no book at all. If you’ve enjoyed this book, please consider leaving a review for the benefit of other readers.

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