In one book, Somebody’s Lover gives you three
erotic romance tales. Meet the Jackson brothers--and the
women who love them...
>Lou Jackson died three years ago and tore a hole the
size of California in his close-knit family. He left behind
a wife, two boys, three brothers and a mom and dad still
devastated by the loss. In the family-owned tree-trimming
business, Jace Jackson broke the cardinal rule; he let his
brother start a job alone. He will never forgive himself
for showing up late to the job site, way too late to save
his brother. In Somebody’s Lover, all Jace wants to
do is atone for his terrible mistake, but instead, he finds
himself falling for Lou’s widow, Taylor. But can Taylor
ever forgive Jace the act for which he can’t forgive
himself? In Somebody’s Ex, David Jackson has
struggled to fill Lou’s shoes, but the family is falling
apart around him, something he’s powerless to fix. Until he
meets Randi Andersen, and for one moment decides to throw
caution to the winds and take a walk on the wild side. In
Somebody’s Wife, Mitch has learned that accidents
happen in the blink of an eye, or the wrong turn of a chain
saw, and his greatest fear is that the same thing might
happen to him, leaving his kids fatherless and his wife
Connie a widow. But his fears just might destroy his
marriage.
With their lives irrevocably changed the day Lou died,
it takes three strong women and the power of love to heal
the Jackson family.
Special Excerpt
Somebody’s Ex by Jasmine
Haynes
Randi shoved at the door with both hands. It groaned
but didn’t budge. The damn thing was getting harder to open
every day. She threw her shoulder into it and practically
fell out of the truck, the door flying wide. Saving herself
by slamming her sandal on the concrete, she jerked her head
up at the shriek of tires on the roadway just in time to see
a three-quarter-ton pickup bearing down on her.
Amidst the sound of squealing tires, her life flashed
before her eyes like the old cliché. The knee-holes in
Mick’s jeans on their wedding day in that cheesy Nevada
chapel. Her divorce papers with Mick’s illegible scrawl.
Her mom’s fish balls sprinkled with curry powder.
Her last thought before she died: I really am a
loser.
Her body must have been flattened beyond pain because
she didn’t feel a thing except warm sunshine heating the top
of her head and the pungent aroma of burnt rubber in her
nostrils.
"Lady, are you insane opening your door like that?"
No, I’m dead.
But wait, the angry drawl didn’t sound like the angel
Gabriel. Or was it Peter who was supposed to meet you at
the Pearly Gates? And hey, what about the tunnel of light?
Randi opened her eyes to an enormous truck bumper
staring her in the face. Brilliant sunlight bouncing off
the chrome blinded her. Her neck hurt from the awkward
angle at which she held her head, looking back at that
terrifyingly close grill. Her little truck was a mere ant
compared to the monster pickup only a few inches from her
rear bumper.
Hands on his hips, booted feet spread wide, and his
chin jutted forward so he could stare her down, Randi
decided the man was too pissed to be an angel.
He’d asked if she was insane. She had to admit that
statement was a darn sight better than what Mick would have
said. Are you a *bleeping* idiot?
One foot in the truck, the other out, she was suddenly
aware of the awkward spread of her legs, and the three
popped snaps on her jean skirt. Only two remained holding
it together.
Holy Moly! If he came any closer, he’d see her thong.
She hastily snapped the buttons on her skirt. Hopping
out too quickly, she stumbled, catching herself with a hand
on the top of the door.
"My door was stuck."
One side of his mouth curled. A snarl, not a smile.
"So you figured you’d just stick it out so someone could rip
it off? Not to mention ripping off the top half of your
body."
He perused her top half with fiery eyes. His
sunglasses swung from the fingers of his clenched fist, and
the sun made his gaze burn. With her five-inch platforms,
he was only an inch or so taller than her, but he seemed to
tower. And glower.
He took a giant step closer.
Royal started to growl.
Randi shuffled forward and slammed the door hard. Of
course, that brought her less than two feet from him, so
close she could now see his eyes were the color of a
Hawaiian black sand beach. Glitteringly dark with silvery
flecks.
He arched a brow.
"It doesn’t like to shut," she explained, in case he
thought she’d slammed it out of pique. "The dog doesn’t
bite, but I’ve never been threatened before, so I’m not sure
how she’ll react."
"This is not threatening. This is mildly pissed off."
"Mildly?" Half joke, half fear. Her breathing had
returned to normal, but her heart pulsed a beat too quickly.
"If I was really pissed, I wouldn’t have stopped. Or
gone around."
He looked up the hill at the blind spot, communicating
his thought that going around her open door might have
resulted in a head-on with someone coming the other way.
When she didn’t comment, freak out, or even apologize,
he tipped his head. "Were you threatening to sic your dog
on me?"
"If I was, I wouldn’t have closed the door." She made
a placating little moue. "I’m sorry about the door. I
couldn’t open it. Then it just..." She spread her hands.
"It just popped." Like the snaps on her skirt.
Instead of answering, his gaze dropped to her skirt,
and she realized she hadn’t properly snapped all her snaps.
She reached down, but then his gaze rose to her breasts
which were now a little too close to falling out of her
low-cut spandex top.
The man was ogling her. And she liked it. She hadn’t
been ogled in a long time. A look at him revealed buff
thighs, chiseled abs, nicely shaped chest muscles and brown
hair streaked with several shades of blond, probably from
days spent working out in the sun.
"You’re leering at me," he said. "I feel like a cheap
piece of meat." He still glowered, but the hint of a smile
curved his lips. He put on his sunglasses before she could
detect an answering glimmer in those intriguing eyes.
"Not cheap. Very expensive." Her voice came out deep,
husky, and way too seductive. Damn. There went her mouth
again, spouting off before her brain had time to catch up.
Mick really hated her tendency to babble.
But Holy Moly, she’d just flirted with a man who’d
almost creamed her and her truck. Not to mention squishing
the dog. Of course, it wasn’t the guy’s fault. But, well,
he could get the wrong impression about her with a comment
like that.
"I didn’t mean that the way it sounded."
She sure as hell had, David hoped. He’d lost his
irritation the minute she’d bent down to button her skirt.
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