Title:
Burnout
Author: Brooklyn
Taylor
Release Date: Nov
2, 2015
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Easton Hunter has a one track
mind. Drag racing. He doesn’t require anything but the rush of
adrenaline while on the race track. His nights are full of women and his days
are full of racing. Life is going just as he has planned until a tragedy
strikes his family. He is left to pick up the pieces abruptly turning his life
as he knows it upside down.
Harper Dunn is finally hitting
the big time. Everything that she has ever worked for is falling right into
place. She is determined to take the world by surprise. Nothing gives her more
satisfaction than proving someone wrong that doubted her, especially of the
opposite sex. She has never been in love and isn’t planning on it
anytime soon. That is until she meets three year old Samantha Hunter.
As competition gets steep not
only on the race track but also in their hearts, they have to decide to take
the leap of faith or walk away from the best thing either has ever
encountered.
Can Easton and Harper resist
temptation when it is standing right in front of
them?
Especially when they are car to
car on the race track?
Can you handle the speed at 300
MPH?
She’s had to leave
the baby with me a few times and it was a total disaster each and every time. I
had to be rescued by Mal or dad all times due to a nonstop cry. Yeah, she
doesn’t like me.
I would feed her, burp her,
change her, and she would still cry nonstop as if I was a monster and she hated
me. It would be the first female who didn’t like me. In all
seriousness though, it kinda pissed me off. I had never been unable to master
anything I had put my mind to. Damn it this was gonna be no
different.
I continued walking her back
and forth and then out the front of the motor coach trying everything and
anything to get her settled. Dad and Mal had gone out for dinner to give
Mallory a break so I knew there would be no one to rescue
me.
I sat under the makeshift porch
and swayed her back and forth just like Mal would do.
Samantha followed me with her
eyes looking into mine studying me. I was already in awe of her but that was
the very moment that I fell in love with
her.
“You know what I
think I am going to call you from now on?”
I paused waiting for an answer.
No, dumbass, she isn’t going to answer you.
“Blue. I am going to
call you Blue.” I
smirked.
“Do
you want to know why I am going to call you
that?”
I waited again continuing to
sway her just slightly while lightly patting her bottom and hearing the sound
of the cushioned diaper as my hand met
it.
“I'll tell
you… you have always screamed bloody murder every time I have held
you since the very first time in the hospital 6 months ago. You would turn blue…
the blue of the annoying dog on Blue’s Clues that you love so much.
So… that is your name to me for now
on.”
I slowly sat down in the chair
that had been calling my name and held her as she slept in my arms peacefully.
So this is what it felt
like.
She
changed something in me that very moment, as I watched her feeling safe in my
arms. I had seen Mallory transform into a mother that the both of us never had
in only a short six months. Here this little life was making me feel something
I had never felt for another by not speaking a word. She was
special.
I currently reside outside of
Austin, Texas. I'm a mother of 2 amazing kiddos and married to my
gorgeous soulmate for almost 20 years. I have a full time job in the medical
field but would rather be spending my time writing! I love to spend my free
time reading, being outside and playing with my family and 4 fur babies. I
started to write at the instinct of "hey maybe I can do
that!" and haven't stopped since. I have enjoyed every step of
the journey. I am blessed to have very supportive friends and family that make
my life worth living!
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