Would she risk
everything for the father of her son?
Woman of light—Grace
Martin once loved Rio Kelman—Older and wiser now, she refuses to surrender her
heart to the gunfighter again—not when he has a habit of riding away when she
needs him the most.
Man of darkness—Rio
Kelman gave up the woman he loved to track down the demons that terrorized the
citizens of the Dakota Territory. No more. He’s back, and he wants his woman at
his side, but she has another man in her life—a little boy.
Rio wants Grace, but
can he accept another man’s child?
Excerpt
Rio stood to one side while Grace
gently washed the dirt and blood from her son’s ill-treated body. He looked so
pale. So still. He reminded her of a little ghost lying there on the table. She
pulled the clean sheet halfway up his body before she froze. Her son. Her
precious little boy lay there, still as a broken toy.
She couldn’t breathe.
She hadn’t felt this crushed when her
parents died, or even her brother. She’d thought then their losses were the
worst things that could ever happen to her.
But she was wrong.
This was worse. This, this was too much to ask of her. She let
go of the sheet and bent over like a stooped old woman. “Oh, God,” she cried,
“please, please don’t take him from
me. He’s my baby. My baby. I beg you. Don’t take him away.”
Rio took the end of the sheet from
her trembling fingers and pulled it up to Wolf’s bruised and swollen chin. Wolf
didn’t stir. His dark eyelashes lay like crescent moons on his babyish cheeks.
“He’s just a baby,” she said,
brushing strands of dark hair back from his face. “He needs a haircut. I been
aiming to take him to the barber in town and get him a proper haircut. A little
boy needs a proper haircut.” A tiny sob escaped her. “He wants it to grow long,
like Grey Wolf’s.”
“Grace.” Rio pulled her into his arms
and held her tight. “Honey, don’t. You’re torturing yourself. Wolf is tough.
He’ll make it, baby.”
“He’s so little,” she said. “So
helpless.”
“I know.”
A deep gash lay across his forehead
from side-to-side. His left arm had already turned a deep purple and was
swollen, but there was no blood from his nose or ears. That was good. She
prayed her son didn’t die. She knew better than most that God could take her
little boy if He so chose. “Please,” she whispered, “he’s all I’ve got.”
“You should send word to the boy’s
father. He needs to be here. Wolf might not have very long,” Rio said bluntly.
Grace looked up from holding Wolf’s
uninjured hand. For a moment, she forgot Rio was there, standing across the
table from her. How fast he rescued Wolf from the insane stallion, even at
great risk to himself. That’s what parents did. Wasn’t it? They put their
child’s safety ahead of their own? Only Rio didn’t know Wolf was his son.
How could he not know his son?
“Grace? The boy’s father? Tell me
where your husband is, I’ll go get him.”
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Photo Credit~ Pat Kelley
Tabitha
Shay, author of paranormal romances, Witch’s Brew, Witch’s Heart,
Witch‘s Moon, Witch’s Magic, Witch’s Fire, and Witch’s Touch.
A member of the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation, Inc., she has served as
both a category chair and judge. Her books have been nominated for several
awards, including the prestigious P.E.A.R.L. Award for Witch’s Magic and
Witch’s Moon, which was also nominated for Best All Around Paranormal in
2008. Witch’s Fire won Runner Up for Best Paranormal Book of 2010 at
LRC. Be sure and catch her new series, Angels of Deadwood Gulch
beginning with book 1, Send Him an Angel and book 2, Darkest Angel.
Watch for book 3, An Angel’s Heart in 2015.
Ms. Shay also writes under the name, Jaydyn Chelcee, and is the author of the best selling,
contemporary western romances, Montana
Men Series, In the Arms of Danger, No Holds Barred, Too Hot to Handle/Too Close to
the Fire, Playing for Keeps, and Wild.
Coming in 2014, Darkest Angel, book 2 in the Angels of Deadwood Gulch Series.
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