Book 1 of The Secrets Duo
This book was originally published as The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker.
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(Book 1 of The Secrets duo) (originally published as The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker) - available in ebook and print
A man with a past…
A man with a past…
Jake Walker has been trouble from the day he was born. Son
of a drunk and an ex-con, he grew up using his fists and his ability to
antagonize even the saintliest of human beings. When student teacher Tess
Buchanan caught him in a school closet making love to a local girl, he and the
girl were both expelled just before graduation, and Jake left town. Now he's
back—reluctantly—but he intends to be gone as soon as he sells his mother's
house. The fact that the woman who ruined his life lives right across the road
and is—once again—inserting herself into his business, only makes his departure
more imperative.
A maddening situation…
Tess Buchanan has always been the type of person who never
steps over the line of acceptable behavior, and she's engaged to marry the
town's most admirable man. She has also been terribly, infuriatingly and
reluctantly fascinated with troublemaker Jake since the day she first laid eyes
on him. The fact that he never even knew she existed until she ruined his life and
disappeared for the following eleven years makes their past even more pathetic
and awful. And then there's the fact that the girl he was caught making love to
gave birth to a child soon afterwards, a child who has never seen his father. Now
Tess, an expert on local architecture, has been elected to make sure Jake's
mother's historical house is in order before he can sell it, throwing her, his
nemesis, right into his path.
If they're lucky, they'll be able to finish this quickly and
move on with their separate lives…but good luck has never been a part of Jake's
life…
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