Do you remember the first
time you were in a new place or met a new person and felt you belonged, that
you’d finally come home? Maybe it’s a new house, where you walked in the front
door and said to yourself, “This is what
I’ve been looking for.” Mine was the first date with my future husband. I
knew this man was my “home” no matter where life took us—and it’s taken us
quite a few places!
In my short story, COMING
HOME, Jericho Hawken meets Maryland Henry and her three nieces and knows he’s
found what he’s been searching for. But there are some big boulders in their
path to happiness.
I’m so happy to share that Coming
Home has been released as an electronic short story for only .99! [It was first
released as part of the Hearts and Spurs anthology from Prairie Rose
Publications.]
Here’s a little taste:
COMING HOME: Sometimes it
takes two to make dreams come true.
When a man who believes he’ll never have a home and family…
Former U.S. Marshal Jericho
Hawken should have been shepherding a wagon train to new territory, but he
unwillingly left them vulnerable to a vicious raider. The murder of the
settlers he was supposed to be guarding is the hardest thing he’s ever had to
face…until he meets the sister of one of the settlers.
…finds a woman who has lost everything…
Instead of a joyous reunion
with her brother, Maryland Henry has come to River’s Bend to take
responsibility for her three orphaned nieces. Fired from her teaching position
and with no other family on whom to rely, Mary believes Jericho Hawken is
responsible for all her woes. Or is he what she’s been searching for all along?
It takes a lot of forgiveness and a few fireworks to realize that
together their dreams can come true.
Excerpt:
Jericho met her gaze. “I was hired as
extra security for their wagon train and was assigned to ride with the group of
wagons they traveled in. I spent a lot of nights at your family’s fire on the
trip out from Saint Louis. Your brother and his wife were kind and generous
people.”
He
watched Mary’s throat work as she battled back tears that made her blue eyes
seem huge in her pale face. When she squared her shoulders and lifted her chin,
he knew his time for avoiding the truth was over.
“What
happened, Mr. Hawken?”
Self-loathing
threatened to choke him. “I’m not sure.”
She
glanced at Matt, then returned her piercing gaze to Jericho. “I don’t
understand. Did it happen at night? Was it too dark for you to see?”
He
gulped down the liquid in his glass and carefully set the crystal aside when he
wanted to hurl it against the stone hearth. “I wasn’t there.”
“Where—”
“I
was in jail.”
The tiny bit of color the brandy had
given her drained away. “What!”
“You can’t hate me more than I despise
myself, Miss Henry.” He rose and prowled the room. “I saw—someone I knew. From
my past. Someone I thought never to lay eyes on again. It’s no excuse, but I
got drunk. When the law decided I needed to extend my stay in their little
town, the wagons went on without me. I followed as soon as they let me go. I
was only a couple of hours behind, but… It was one hour too long.”
I’m giving away an electronic copy of COMING HOME to one
reader who leaves a comment today.
Coming Home will be
released on DECEMBER 4. Find me on Facebook (TracyGarrett.author), Twitter
(TGarrett_author) or stop by my website, www.TracyGarrett.com, to keep up on what’s new. And thanks
for visiting today!
Tracy
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TRACY GARRETT
BIOGRAPHY:
Award-winning
multi-published author Tracy Garrett has always loved to disappear into the
pages of a book. An accomplished musician, Tracy merged her need for
creativity, love of history, and passion for reading when she began writing
western historical romance. First published in 2007, Tracy joined the Prairie
Rose Publications in its inaugural anthology in 2013. She is a regular blogger on
Petticoats and Pistols. Tracy resides in Missouri with her husband
and their fuzzy kid, Wrigley.
