The Friessens: A New Beginning by Lorhainne Eckhart
(The Friessens: A New Beginning #1-4)
Genres: Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Synopsis book 1:
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a new threat, one he never saw coming.
Gabriel is sick, and a trip to the doctor confirms Laura and Andy’s worst nightmare: Without a lifesaving transplant, their son won’t survive.
What Andy doesn’t count on, as he tracks down the young man who fathered Gabriel, as well as Laura’s estranged parents, is that a whole host of problems are about to be unleashed.
THE FRIESSENS: A NEW BEGINNING:
The Deadline (Andy & Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil & Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad & Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
**The stories in this series are romances filled with sexual tension, rough language, passion, the ideals of family, love and loyalty and The Friessen men in these stories are strong sexy alpha males. And are not your typical happily ever after.
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a new threat, one he never saw coming.
Gabriel is sick, and a trip to the doctor confirms Laura and Andy’s worst nightmare: Without a lifesaving transplant, their son won’t survive.
What Andy doesn’t count on, as he tracks down the young man who fathered Gabriel, as well as Laura’s estranged parents, is that a whole host of problems are about to be unleashed.
THE FRIESSENS: A NEW BEGINNING:
The Deadline (Andy & Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil & Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad & Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
**The stories in this series are romances filled with sexual tension, rough language, passion, the ideals of family, love and loyalty and The Friessen men in these stories are strong sexy alpha males. And are not your typical happily ever after.
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Excerpt
Excerpt
“Mister Neil, when are you expecting your
guest?” Ana asked. The short, plump Mayan woman was their housekeeper and cook,
and she moved a plate of cookies onto the sofa table.
“Any minute now,” Neil replied as he
glanced at his watch before noticing Candy where she lingered beside the
bookshelf. “Candy, I didn’t hear you come in,” he said. His gaze lingered on
her as he took in what she was wearing. His expression was questioning. This
was the first time she had chosen something different than what he’d set out for her. Before, it had been helpful
for him to pick out her clothes when she didn’t know what to wear, but now it
seemed as if he was dressing her up to meet a mistress. She said nothing.
“Your parents, will they be meeting this
woman, as well?” Ana asked.
Neil turned to Ana, distracted, and said,
“No, not yet.” He stepped around the sofa, closer to Candy, and Ana took that
moment to slip out of the room. “Why aren’t you wearing the dress that I set
out for you?” he asked.
“I didn’t want to wear a dress. What’s
wrong with what I’m wearing?”
“You’re not wearing makeup, so what have
you been doing for the past hour?” He sounded annoyed.
“I was thinking,” she said as she moved
around the sofa toward one of the large windows. She leaned in and stared at
the small black car pulling up out front.
“What were you thinking about?” he asked.
She could feel his heat as he stepped up behind her.
She shrugged. “Just some things. Besides,
what should it matter what I wear? Is there something more going on, here?”
This time she met his gaze, and humor
filled his expression. She wasn’t amused, though. She was ready for a fight,
though their fights usually led her to a place she loved to be—making up with
him in bed. He put his hands on his hips, and she knew he was about to start in
on her and maybe push a little harder. He never let things go, not after
everything they’d been through, fighting their way back to each other from
hell. Her connection with Neil was everything she’d every wanted, but at times
his worry about her could be smothering.
Fortunately, he was stopped from pushing
his agenda, as far as dressing her went, when the doorbell rang. Candy glanced
out the window and noticed two women as Neil yelled out, “I’ll get it, Ana.”
She didn’t move from her spot by the window
as he went down the hall. Charm oozed from her husband as he spoke, and then,
as expected, she heard a woman laughing. Neil had that effect. She rolled her
eyes, knowing no one could see her, and listened to their voices and footsteps
as they approached.
“Candy, this is Maria and her mother,
Carmen,” Neil said as they entered. The two women stood beside Neil and
followed him after he gestured to the sofas. “Come in, sit down, please. Could
I offer you a glass of lemonade?”
“Si, senor. That is very kind,” the older
woman said. She was slim and attractive, with jet-black hair woven with silver
threads, pinned back at the sides with two barrettes. She was pretty and looked
so neat and tidy in her red skirt and white blouse. Her daughter, Maria, was a
young woman, and she smiled brightly up at Neil. When her gaze slid over to
Candy, she blushed. Her hair was long, dark, straight—not wild and out of
control, like Candy’s. She was slim, with long legs, and curvy in a way men
must have loved.
Neil poured two glasses of lemonade, and
Maria smiled in a coy, shy way that stirred all Candy’s insecurities. Her
stomach was starting to hurt, maybe from how tightly she’d been holding on to
everything, bottling up her feelings. Having a woman here who would carry her
husband’s child…it was almost more than she could bear.
“Candy?” Neil gestured to another glass as
he poured.
“No,” she said, shaking her head and
crossing her arms in front of her. She took only one step from her spot by the
window before deciding to stay where she was.
Neil set the glass down and strode around
to the fireplace, facing the women. “I’m glad you agreed to come. My wife isn’t
able to have children, and we want a family—a child of our own.”
Maria, sitting right beside her mother,
cast Candy a sympathetic look, and Carmen patted her daughter’s hand. “My Maria
is strong and young. She can carry your child, Mister Friessen,” she said
boldly.
Candy had never considered that Neil would
talk openly about her condition this way, in front of strangers, and it
stung—never mind the fact that this was why the women were here in the first
place. “How old are you, Maria?” she asked.
AUTHOR BIO:
USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart’s books have been described as Longmire meets old school Dallas and she recently received the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Award for Romantic Suspense for her title Lost and Found. With over 30 titles under her belt, she is frequently a top 100 bestselling author in multiple genres such as Romance, Westerns and Mystery/Suspense, including such series as The Outsider, Walk the Right Road, The Wilde Brothers, The Saved and her most recent addition The Friessens: A New Beginning.
Lorhainne lives on sunny Salt Spring Island with her family where she is working on her next novel.
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