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The
Fixer Upper
Echo
Springs Book 1
by
Maggie Mae Gallagher
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Abby
Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man,
and she’s beginning to wonder if there is life for her outside the
pages of a book. It doesn’t help that her esteemed parents tend to
view her as they would one of their science experiments gone wrong.
On the eve of finishing her dissertation, she escapes her staid
existence to live in the house she inherited from her Great Aunt Evie
in the small town of Echo Springs, Colorado. Because, let’s face
it, when a woman starts comparing her life to horror films, it might
be time for a break.
Sheriff
Nate Barnes believes in law and order and carefully building the life
you want. In his spare time, he has been remodeling his house in the
hope that one day it will be filled with the family he makes. But
Nate doesn’t like drama or complications and tends to avoid them at
all costs. And yet, when Miss Abigail Callier, his newest neighbor,
beans him with a nine iron, he can’t help but wonder if she might
just be the complication he’s been searching for all along. It
doesn’t hurt that he’s discovered a journal hidden away by the
previous tenant, and decides to use Old Man Turner’s advice to
romance Abby into his life.
Abby
never expected her next-door neighbor, the newly dubbed Sheriff Stud
Muffin, to be just the distraction her world needed. The problem is
she doesn’t know whether she should make Echo Springs her home, or
if this town is just a stopover point in her life’s trajectory. And
she doesn’t want to tell Nate that she might not be sticking around
– even though she should, because it’s the right thing to do, the
honest thing – because then all the scintillatingly hot kisses with
the Sheriff will come to an abrupt halt. Did she mention that he’s
a really great kisser?
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The Carruthers’ property was on a
half-acre of land. The two-story home had fallen into disrepair. The
pale blue paint was cracked and peeling in places. One of the black
shutters had slats broken out of the middle. Jed was a mechanic at
one of the local garages, who liked his whiskey more than he did
working. And it showed. His wife, Clare, had taken herself and the
kids to her parents’ house, which was only three miles away. Nate knocked on the door. “Jed, this
is Sheriff Barnes. I need you to open the door and come out with your
hands in the air.” “Fuck off,” came a slurred shout
from inside. Nate sighed. From the sounds of it, the
man was already well on his way to being shitfaced. “Jed, don’t
make this more difficult than it needs to be. I have a warrant for
your arrest. If you come with me now, peacefully, it will help your
case.” Deputy O’Leary stood off to the side
of the front door of the ramshackle home with its screen door torn in
spots. When there was no response from Jed, Nate nodded at O’Leary,
who made his way around to the back to ensure the idiot didn’t try
to go out the back door and escape. “Jed, I’m going to give you to the
count of five and then I’m coming in.” There was a shout from O’Leary around
back. Nate took off and sprinted to the edge of the porch, just in
time to watch Jed, in a pair of white boxers and nothing else, race
around the corner and head toward the street. “Halt, Jed.” Shit. Nate charged after him on foot. This
was why he ran six miles a day—so he could catch morons like Jed
who thought they could outrun the police. Nate snagged him by the
neck and wrestled him down to the ground. He took an elbow to the
chin and swore before he had Jed pinned on the ground with his hands
behind his back. Not quick enough, he thought as he slid the cuffs on
Jed’s wrists. “For that stunt, I will be adding
resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, Jed.” “Piss off, pig!” Jed yelled,
uncowed by the fact that he was handcuffed. From the smell of him, he
had started early on the Jack Daniels. Nate shook his head and began reading
Jed his Miranda rights. His chin throbbed like a son of a bitch and
it wasn’t yet noon. So much for having a slow and easy day.
Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew up listening to Cardinals
baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She
remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of
books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the
bookstore, she'd have been a doctor. While Maggie never did get that
doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of
Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.
Maggie
is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple
fiction genres. She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya
Summers. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she
adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her
family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry
felines.
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I love the cover!
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