Divorce, Interrupted

By Jill James

Book 1 - The Lake Willowbee Series

Newly-divorced Todd and Lisa Miller are stranded at their mountain cabin. There to divide a lifetime of memories, they soon are in danger from more than the anger between them. A vicious storm forces them to rely on each other to survive.

Can they trust the one person they lost belief in? Or are their hearts in danger from more than floods and frigid weather?

Romance heat level - hot

Book 2 is Dare To Trust
Book 3 is Defend My Love

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jill James
• Release date: Oct 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465953551

Jill James

Jill James is a self published author, with books in contemporary, paranormal, and zompoc romance. She didn't start out wanting to be a writer. She wanted to be a doctor, a lawyer, an astronaut, and President of the United States. Along the way, life happened and she realized she could be all those things; between the pages of the books she wrote. She lives in Northern Nevada with her husband, the inspiration for all her romance novel heroes.When she isn't writing, she is reading. She also collects salt and pepper shakers on her vacations.

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Divorce, Interrupted

(The Lake Willowbee Series, #1)

By Jill James

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This book is dedicated to my husband who said, Go for it. And for the men and women of Indie Romance Ink.

Divorce, Interrupted

By

Jill James

Blurb:

Newly-divorced Todd and Lisa Miller are stranded at their mountain cabin. There to divide a lifetime of memories, they soon are in danger from more than the anger between them. A vicious storm forces them to rely on each other to survive.

Can they trust the one person they lost belief in? Or are their hearts in danger from more than floods and frigid weather?

Contents

Title Table of Contents Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Epilogue Dear Reader Letter Dare To Trust blurb Defend My Love blurb Dangerous Shift blurb Tempting Adam blurb

Chapter One

The wind crashed against the bay window in the front of the cabin. Lisa Miller jumped up and knocked over her chair, sending it falling to the floor. Her shaking hand flew to her chest. Her heartbeat pounded in her ears. That one sounded like it went through the window.

She peered around the doorway to the living room, and sighed in relief. The glass was still in one piece, although a large pine bough sat on the front porch. The wet needles stood out in silver bas-relief against the graying, darkening sky.

This had been a bad idea, she berated herself. She could’ve waited for the storm of the century to pass before she came up to the lake. Even with her husband, Todd, coming next week, she could’ve waited. A sob caught in her throat like a burr. Todd, her newly, the ink hardly dry on the divorce decree, ex-husband.

She righted the chair and fell into it. How had it come to this? She’d been in love with Todd for as long as she could remember. He’d been her first boyfriend, her first lover, and she’d been sure, her last.

Throwing her head back, Lisa stared at the ceiling. Finding no comfort in the familiar cedar logs, she brought her head down and gazed into space. Her sight unfocused, the kitchen viewed through a haze of tears she refused to shed.

Twenty years. Gone in an instant. Her abrupt decision to take her boss up on his umpteenth attempt at flirting. A nanosecond to throw it all away. For what turned out to be mediocre sex at best. Todd had ruined her for any other man. He loved her with his heart and soul, and she’d trampled it for half the allotted time in a tawdry, by-the-hour motel with smelly, overused sheets.

Her reasons, ones that she’d thought so important at the time; no longer feeling special, him working endless hours, and his growing discontent with her extra pounds, paled in comparison to what she’d thrown away.

Her nose ran, as the tears slid down her cheeks, wetting the newspaper on the table. The headline, Possibility of Flooding in Lake County Certain, glared at her and her stupidity. She’d been so determined to clear the vacation house of personal belongings before the sale, and now she was second-guessing every decision in her life.

Her hair fell from her ponytail and caressed her damp cheeks. She swiped her face in a harsh rub, pulled the ponytail holder from her hair, and scraped the hair back in painful tugs, putting the rubber band back in.

Too bad the pain in her scalp wasn’t enough to take her mind away from the pain in her heart. She grabbed a page of the newspaper and wrapped another knickknack. Fresh tears cascaded down her face as she viewed the bride and groom figurine from her and Todd’s wedding cake.

The small couple looked so idyllic; holding hands, gazing into each other’s eyes. What a lie you made of that, Lisa. Her hard laugh bounced around the cavernous room,