Conflicting
Hearts
Contemporary Romance
Date Published: November
2012
Synopsis:
Rachel Hayward hoped to have a quiet thirtieth birthday alone.
Instead, fate had different plans.
Caught in traffic and late for work, she can do nothing except
wait for the freeway gridlock to ease. A three-car pileup has caused the snarl.
Just as cars begin to move at a faster clip, Rachel takes her eyes off the road
to gawk at the accident and rear-ends the car in front of
her.
Sick over having ruined her day, she lowers her head onto the
steering wheel and waits for the driver to begin a tirade over her stupidity.
Instead, a kind man taps on her window showing genuine concern about her
welfare. The brief colliding encounter suddenly starts a relationship between
two strangers that takes off under odd circumstances.
When the couple becomes intimate, their relationship turns
into a conflicting set of desires and needs. Rachel is bound by a shameful,
dark childhood. After she falls in love with the handsome Ian Richards, she is
faced with the decision to leave him or finally confront her demons to obtain
the one thing in life she's always needed--healing from the sexual abuse she
endured as a little girl.
EXCERPT
Ian slowly turns me around so that I’m facing him. We’re nose
to nose. Our bodies are touching front to front. This is not good, or maybe it
is good. He doesn’t say a thing, except to look at me with a smoldering gaze. A
second later, he lazily moves his eyes toward my lips.
I’m frozen. I look at him with half anticipation and half
panic. He’s going to kiss me; I know it. His intentions are clearly expressed
in his blue eyes, which have turned a shade darker. I’m losing it. Hurriedly, I
remind him of his words to fend off the advance.
“Uh, I thought you wanted to be just
friends?”
A look of admiration sweeps across his face. He gently brings
his hand up to my forehead and brushes a few strands of hair out of my eyes.
Ian is silent, but it’s obvious he is thinking this through. It’s driving me
crazy being close to his body.
“You want more?” I whisper, trying to get him to say
something.
“Do you?”
He answers with a question. It’s annoying. “I asked you
first,” I reply, not cracking a smile or giving away my heart pounding in my
chest. I can’t look at him any longer. I close my eyes, and silently ask God,
who I’ve ignored for years, to help me.
Then I feel the warmth of his breath approach. He circles my
lips with his and gives me a long, tender kiss. Sweet Jesus. He tastes so
delicious! I hope the breath mint I popped in my mouth a half hour ago is still
working. Eventually, he pulls away, and I open my
eyes.
“Does that answer your question?”
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Author Bio:
J. D. Burrows is a pen named used for contemporary romance
written by Vicki Hopkins. She has authored four other historical
fiction/romance novels. Her recent historical (Dark Persuasion) won the 2012
USA Best Book Awards Finalist for Fiction Romance.
The author lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with a pesky
cat who refuses to let her sleep in. She enjoys traveling to England,
researching her English ancestry, finding long-lost relatives from the Holland
lineage, and creating stories that touch the hearts of
women.
For information about her historical romance, visit
http://vickihopkins.com
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