Can a near-tragedy help two
best friends realize they’re meant to be so much more?
Best friends since grade school,
high-powered Chicago attorney, Sean Flaherty,
and small-town mayor Megan Mackenzie have
always shared a special bond. When Sean is shot by a client’s angry ex, Megan
rushes to his side, terrified she’s about to lose her long-time confidant.
Upon
his return to River’s Edge to recuperate, Sean discovers that his feelings for
his pal have taken an undeniable turn for the romantic. While Megan struggles
with an unfamiliar longing for Sean, she worries that he may be mistaking a
safe place to land for love.
Can
Sean help her realize that they are truly meant to be so much more than
friends?
LINKS:
Meant
to Be
Excerpt
Meg
was afraid to ask, but she did anyway. “What happened?”
“Sean’s
been shot.” Sam crumpled back into the booth, sobbing.
Megan
gasped as bile rose in her throat. She couldn’t even comprehend Sam’s words.
Sean was shot? The invincible Sean
Flaherty? Her buddy? Her best friend? His handsome face flashed into her
mind—the lock of dark hair that invariably fell across his brow, the blue, blue
eyes that sparkled sapphire with wit or turned dark navy with emotion, that
killer smile, those amazing Flaherty dimples... impossible!
“What?”
She sat down across from Sam. “Shot?” She
could hardly catch her breath. “When? Where?”
Sam
grabbed a napkin from the dispenser on the table and swiped at her eyes. “I–I
don’t know much. Charlie Smith at the firm said it happened right outside the
courthouse in Evanston early this afternoon. Some crazy woman. The wife of his
current client. They took him to Northwestern; he’s in surgery right now.” She
took a shaky breath. “Conor’s driving up to meet Aidan and Brendan at the
airport, then they’re heading to the hospital.” She covered her mouth with both
hands as if that could stop her lips from trembling, then shuddered. “Dear God,
Meg.”
Megan
closed her eyes, trying desperately to banish the dreadful pictures in her
head—Sean on a gurney, pale and bleeding—and replace them with ones from the
last time she’d seen him—grinning and pouring sparkling wine on New Year’s Eve.
They’d
hugged each other at midnight because neither of them had had a date, and Sean
had pressed his warm lips to her forehead. “You’re the best, Megs,” he’d
murmured and held her close to his brawny chest for a long moment. She felt the
even beat of his heart under the navy sweater he wore—the one she’d knitted for
him for Christmas that made his eyes look deep blue.
“I’m
going up there.” Megan stood and gazed at Sam. “I have to, Sam. He’s my oldest and dearest friend. Maybe there’s nothing
I can do, but I can spell the guys at visitation and maybe, I dunno, give blood
or something. I just know I can’t stay here. I’ll go crazy. I have to see him.”
Sam
stared at her silently, then sighed. “Come on. Let’s trade cars. I don’t trust
your old beater to make it to Indianapolis, and you sure as heck can’t ride Big
Red all the way to Chicago.”
***
My friend Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today-bestselling
author of romantic fiction for women in their prime. Yeah, women still fall in
love and have sex, even after 45! Imagine! She is a wife, a mom, a
Although she loves her
life as an editor, writing is Nan’s first and most enduring passion. Her latest novel, Meant to Be, Book 2 in the
Four Irish Brothers Winery series from Tule Publishing releases on July 18,
2019. A Small Town Christmas, which is the first book in the Four
Irish Brothers Winery series from Tule Publishing, is available
now, and she is currently hard at work on Book 3.
Visit Nan’s website
at www.nanreinhardt.com, where you’ll find links to all her books as
well as blogs about writing, being a Baby Boomer, and aging gracefully…mostly.
Nan also blogs every sixth Wednesday at Word
Wranglers, sharing the spotlight
with five other romance authors and is a frequent contributor the RWA
Contemporary Romance blog, and she
contributes to the Romance
University blog where she
writes as Editor Nan.
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