The Wanted Bride
Author: Sylvia Daniel
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Synopsis: She’s a Runaway Bride.
Valerie Burrows
is running from a wedding, her attorney fiancé and the law. Pampered Valerie
takes a bus to nowheresville, where she learns her cash and credit cards have
been stolen. Left with only her designer clothes and luggage she takes on a new
identity and must learn to be self-reliant. She swears off men, especially
attorneys, only to find the one man who refuses a one night stand and wants a
relationship.
He’s Looking For
A Wife
Matt Jordan, the
Colorado Crusher, is the most successful liability lawyer in the state. After
the death of his brother-in-law, he realizes he’s ready to settle down with a
family of his own. His only requirements are intelligent, great-looking, wants
more than a hook-up and doesn’t lie. After witnessing the lies his father told
his mother, he demands complete honesty. Yet Valerie Brown shows him sometimes
in order to find yourself, you must become someone else. Even if that means
lying.
Inside Look
In forty-eight
hours a girl’s life could change completely.
Valerie stepped
off the bus in the small town of Springtown, Colorado. Population 294. Salute!
In Amarillo
she’d bought a ticket to Denver and pitched her wedding gown in the trash.
After sitting beside a drug dealer all the way to Albuquerque, being proposed
to by a parolee on
the way to Santa
Fe, and awakening to an elderly woman riffling through her Louis Vuitton
carry-on, it was time to ditch public transportation. She’d take a taxi to the
nearest car rental
place and
continue her journey in her own set of wheels.
The air brakes
hissed as the driver released them, and the bus pulled away from the depot,
which consisted of a bench in front of a café. The cold wind whipped right
through her thin
clothes as she
stood alone on the street. She pushed open the door to the small diner. A “Help
Wanted” sign
banged against the glass. The greasy spoon was filled to capacity in the late
evening, but suddenly her stomach growled, reminding her the Snickers bar she’d
eaten in
Albuquerque was
not a five-course meal.
The café grew
quiet as Valerie pulled her luggage across the wooden floor, the wheels thump,
thump, thumping. She sat down, sighing in relief, and the chatter resumed. She
desperately needed a latte grande. A woman with stained white sneakers and a
food splattered
dress stopped at
her booth.
“What can I get
you?” she asked.
“I’d like eggs
Benedict with a skim, no whip, pumpkin spice latte. Make it a grande.”
The waitress
glanced at her matching luggage. “Honey, I think you must have missed your bus
stop. This here is Springtown, not Vail. I’m not Martha Stewart, and I don’t do
lattes.”
Valerie frowned
and bit back the quick retort that sprang to her lips. Had the woman never
heard of Starbucks? “What do you have?” she asked, wondering if the bus had
dropped her off on Mars, or if she was starring in her own personal Twilight
Zone episode.
“Did you look at
the menu?”
“No.”
“I’d suggest you
start there,” the waitress said.
“Give me two
eggs over easy, with coffee.” Valerie replied.
“Do you have any
hazelnut cream to go in the coffee?”
“Here in
Springtown our cows don’t produce flavors.” She pushed her pen back behind her
ear. “My name is Fran if you need anything else.”
The waitress
hurried off. Valerie gazed around the café and noticed the sheriff and a guy
whose dark looks would normally have taken her breath away occupied a booth
across the room.
However, in the
last forty-eight hours she’d sworn off men.
Today her heart pounded a little harder, but only because the sheriff
sat across from the tall, dark, handsome man. Surely two
states away no
one would be searching for her. Yet.
With the number
of criminals loose in this world, why would law enforcement be interested in a
good girl with a temporary case of wedding insanity from Dallas? Her crime was
minor
compared to the
act of her two best friends. Or since they’d betrayed her, were they really her
friends?
Book Soundtrack
Can you share
your idea of the perfect soundtrack to ‘The Wanted Bride’ with us?
Whoa -- I’d
start out with Pink singing Blow Me One last Kiss and at the end, I’d have Pat
Benatar singing Hit Me With Your Best Shot when Valerie is discovered. And at
the very end Pat Benatar singing We Live For Love.
About the Author: Sylvia McDaniel
is a best-selling, award-winning author of historical and contemporary
romances. Known for her sweet, funny,
family-oriented romances, Sylvia is the
author of The Burnett Brides a historical western series, The Cuvier Widows, a
Louisiana historical series, and several short contemporary romances.
President of the
Dallas Area Romance Authors, a member of the Romance Writers of America®, and a
member of Novelists Inc, her novel, A Hero’s Heart was a 1996 Golden Heart
Finalist. Several other books have placed or won in the San Antonio Romance
Authors Contest, LERA Contest, and was a Golden Network Finalist.
Married for
nearly twenty years to her best friend, they have two dachshunds that are
beyond spoiled. She loves gardening, shopping, knitting and football, but not
necessarily in that order.
Where to Find the Author: Website/Goodreads/Amazon/Twitter/Facebook/Plotting Princesses/Sylvia McDaniela
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