Title:
Bigger Than the Sky (Serenity Point #1)
Author: Harper Bentley
Release Date: Sept 30, 2014
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Five years ago, I
left my fiancé, hotter than hot Navy SEAL Kade Kelly, at the
altar.
No, I’m
not an idiot.
Yes, I had my
reasons.
Now I’ve
made a new life for myself working at a large firm in Richmond and
I’ve left the past behind. Or so I
thought.
Upon returning to
my hometown of Serenity Point, Virginia, to take care of some business, I find
that Kade’s now home for good and he’s none too happy about
my being here.
Two months.
That’s all I’m staying then I’m out of here.
Unless I believe the town’s pink-haired psychic’s
prediction. Or embrace the sense of belonging I feel at being back home. Or
give in to the emotions stirring inside when Kade's attention is
suddenly on me.
He scares the crap
out of me.
He thrills
me.
He used to tell me
our love was bigger than the
sky.
I always knew ours
was a once-in-a-lifetime love. So how can he be so sure it can happen
again?
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“Amelia?”
After my squawk of
surprise, I turn and see Brody Kelly walking across the street and I
can’t help the huge smile that covers my
face.
“Brody!”
I holler and run to meet him, jumping up and throwing my arms around his neck
for a hug as his encircle my waist and he spins me
around.
“Thought
that was you,” he says with a grin as he sets me back
down.
“In the
flesh,” I say with a smile as I look up at him, covering my eyes with
my hand to block the sun. Brody was always such a cutie with his messy sandy
brown hair, expressive hazel eyes and mischievous grin that always let you know
he was up to no good. He’s around six-two, two-hundred pounds of rock
solid muscle and I’d think he was hot if not for the fact that
he’s like a little brother to me.
He walks over and
whistles at my car. “Man, Mill, getting’ pretty fancy on
us. Might wanna hide it in the garage tonight so no one steals the
rims.” He grins down at me when I come up beside him and smack him in
the arm. He looks around for a second and says, “Seriously,
where’s Jeeves? Didn’t he drive
you?”
“Shut it,
Brody,” I reply with a giggle.
“Guess
you’re doing pretty well for yourself then, huh?” he asks,
a small frown forming on his face.
I purse my lips
then respond, “Yes, I’m doing okay, I guess.” He
looks at me out of the corner of his eye in a that was so an
understatement kind of way since my car cost almost six figures.
“Um, what’re you doing here? I mean, it’s like
you just appeared out of the blue,” I
say.
He takes me by the
shoulders and turns me to face across the street. I look at
Pettyman’s Lumberyard, but that’s when
I notice it no longer says Pettyman’s on the front but
Kelly & Family Lumber and Construction in its
place.
“Y-you
bought Pettyman’s?”
He nods with
another grin then asks, “So how long you in town
for?”
“Not
sure. I’ve got two months’ vacation time I’m
using so I came to finally check out the station,” I explain, turning
back to face it, my smile falling away.
“Aw,
Mill, I’m sorry. They were good people,” he replies.
“I know Harley feels terrible about
everything.”
Harley Sedgwick,
the local heating and air technician, had inspected the heater in Papaw and
Meemaw’s house for years, telling Papaw on his inspection five years
ago (the winter after my wedding debacle) that it really needed to be replaced.
Papaw had scoffed at him telling him there was at least a good five more years
in it. The next year, Papaw had neglected to call Harley to come back out and
take a look, and Harley had been so busy that it hadn’t even occurred
to him to check on them. The heater had developed a leak since the previous
year it’d been checked, and my beloved grandparents tragically died
in their sleep from carbon monoxide poisoning on a chilly day in early
November.
“I
know,” I say. “I hope he knows it’s not his
fault. Papaw was a stubborn old fool anyway, as Meemaw would’ve
said.” I chuckle sadly.
He curls an arm
around my shoulders to comfort me. The Kelly men and their
protectiveness, I think which makes me
sigh.
“So think
you might be back to stay?” he asks looking down at me, eyebrows
raised.
I huff out a laugh
because that’s a ludicrous idea. “No. I wanted to see if
maybe I could get the place up and running again then sell,” I inform
him.
He drops his arm
then nods with what looks like disappointment, which I think is ridiculous. He
knows I’m never coming back.
“So how
are you? How’s Piper?” I
ask.
“She’s
fine,” he says aloofly. Then he gets a shy look on his face.
“I passed the fireman test. I’m a real-live firefighter
now.”
My eyes now get big
and I squeal, “Really? Oh, my God! I’m so happy for
you!” I hug him again telling him his news is wonderful when I hear someone
clearing his throat behind him. Still holding on to him, I lean to the side and
look around his shoulder, and what I see makes me swallow down a
gasp.
Dear
God.
Brody’s
older brother Kade Kelly.
Still hotter than
hell Kade Kelly.
Kade Kelly
who’s got a hard body that’s sculpted like a magnificent
work of art.
Who has a large
Celtic cross tattooed on his back with “Fiona” in the
middle of it in honor of their baby sister who’d died at
birth.
Kade Kelly who
sings and plays guitar in a band.
Who took my
virginity when I was sixteen and he was
eighteen.
Kade Kelly who I
left standing at the altar five years ago.
Harper Bentley has
taught high school English for 22 years. Although she’s managed to
maintain her sanity regardless of her career choice, jumping into the world of
publishing her own books goes to show that she might be closer to the ledge
than was previously thought.
After traveling the
nation in her younger years as a military brat, having lived in Alaska,
Washington State and California, she now resides in Oklahoma with her teenage
daughter, two dogs and one cat, happily writing stories that she hopes her
readers will enjoy.
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