He’s loved her forever. She still sees him as the neighbor kid. Can five desperate kittens bring them together?
“It's fabulous watching the bond developed between Adam and
Marley. 5 stars for sure!”
Marley is a baker at the new Furrever Friends Cat Café, which is still trying to find its footing. Her nine-year-old son, Brian, desperately wants a kitten, but they can’t have pets where they live. Who has the time to date? Just as well that she’s protected her heart since the father of her child disappeared.
Adam has loved Marley since he was 13, and she was his best friend’s free-spirited older sister. Back then, he fantasized about rescuing her from bandits or dragons. Now he’s 24, and the five-year age gap isn’t so serious. He wants nothing more than to become a family with Marley and her son. But will she ever see him as a man?
When someone leaves a box of week-old kittens at the café, Adam jumps at the chance to be a hero. But herding kittens might be tougher than fighting dragons, especially when two of them fail to thrive. Can Adam, Marley, and Brian save the kittens and find a future together?
“The second in this series is just as sweet as the first,
and the characters, which we met in the first book, are even more rounded out
and real. If Marley ever grows tired of Adam, I want him! The characters in
this book are kind and earnest, which is so refreshing.”
Excerpt:
Marley strode to the front door. “We don’t open for another
ten minutes. I don’t understand why whoever it is couldn’t wait. Nobody needs
coffee that badly.” She pushed it open, glanced around, and looked down. “Oh.”
“What is it?” He couldn’t see past her, but something in her
voice made him want to drag her back, get out front, and protect her.
She opened the door wider, moving with it so he could see.
He looked down at a cardboard box filled with wriggling fur.
“Kittens?”
Marley crouched, propping the door open with her hip. “Five
of them. oh, they’re adorable.”
Adam went down on one knee beside her. One kitten was black,
another black and white. One was white with specks of tan. The fourth had a
brown pattern, while the fifth had orange and white swirls.
Adam scanned the area for any people. A couple of cars drove
down the street. Someone from another business brought out the trash. Whoever
had left the box had disappeared. In a car, they could be blocks away.
“They’re gone,” he said. “I guess they figured leaving
kittens at a cat café was like leaving a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage.”
Marley stroked her finger over one tiny head. “But it’s not.
We can’t even take them inside. All the cats here have had their vaccinations,
but we don’t know anything about these. They’re so tiny, surely they shouldn’t
be away from their mother yet.”
Marley looked up at him, her brown eyes luminous. “What are
we going to do? I’m supposed to open in a few minutes. We can’t bring them
inside. We can’t leave them here. They’re so young.”
When he was 13, he’d imagined slaying dragons for her. At
15, he’d pictured himself defending her from a gang of muggers. By 17, the
daydreams had gotten slightly more realistic. He might pull her back before she
stepped in the path of a speeding car. He might rescue Brian from drowning or
choking, or find him in the woods when he’d wandered off. It didn’t matter that
they didn’t have a forest within two miles. Adam simply wanted to be Marley’s
hero. He’d been waiting for the chance. He could certainly take care of this
little problem.
“I’ll deal with it.”
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Kris also writes romantic suspense set in the Southwestern U.S. If you love Mary Stewart or Barbara Michaels, try Kris Bock’s stories of treasure hunting, archaeology, and intrigue in the Southwest. Learn more at www.krisbock.com or visit Kris Bock’s Amazon US page or Amazon UK page. (For other countries click here.)
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