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    Second Chances: Granite Junction
    Second Chances: Granite Junction
    Second Chances: Granite Junction
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    Second Chances: Granite Junction

    By Megan Ryder

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    Overwhelmed trying to hold onto her dead husband's ranch, a lonely widow turns to the one man she can't have for a night of passion.

     

    Jessie McAdams has been fighting to hang on to the ranch her husband loved, but ultimately killed him, just as it's slowly killing her, body and soul, not to mention financially. She also harbors a secret passion for his best friend, one she knows she can never act upon. Until one day a freak spring snow storm traps them both in a line cabin. Knowing she is about to lose everything, should she take a chance for one night of happiness before it all slips away?

     

    Slade Donovan has harbored a secret love for Jessie since the day his best friend brought her home from college, but the friendship code dictated that he stay away. Even after his friend died, he couldn't make a move, though he was there for her as best he could. But his resolve is tested when Jessie approaches him in a cabin for one night of passion.

     

    But when he finds out she plans to leave Granite Junction forever, will he finally step up and declare his love or let her go forever?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMegan Ryder
    Release dateDec 30, 2022
    ISBN9798215048368
    Second Chances: Granite Junction
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    Megan Ryder

    Ever since Megan Ryder discovered Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught while sneaking around the “forbidden” romance section of the library one day after school, she has been voraciously devouring romance novels of all types. Now a romance author in her own right, Megan pens sexy contemporary novels all about family and hot lovin’ with the boy next door. She lives in Connecticut, spending her days as a technical writer and her spare time divided between her addiction to knitting and reading.

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      Second Chances - Megan Ryder

      Second Chances

      SECOND CHANCES

      A Granite Junction Short Story

      GRANITE JUNCTION

      MEGAN RYDER

      SECOND CHANCES

      Jessie McAdams has been fighting to hang on to the ranch her husband loved, but ultimately killed him, just as it's slowly killing her, body and soul, not to mention financially. She also harbors a secret passion for his best friend, one she knows she can never act upon. Until one day a freak spring snow storm traps them both in a line cabin. Knowing she is about to lose everything, should she take a chance for one night of happiness before it all slips away?

      Slade Donovan has harbored a secret love for Jessie since the day his best friend brought her home from college, but the friendship code dictated that he stay away. Even after his friend died, he couldn't make a move, though he was there for her as best he could. But his resolve is tested when Jessie approaches him in a cabin for one night of passion.

      But when he finds out she plans to leave Granite Junction forever, will he finally step up and declare his love or let her go forever?

      Copyright © December 2022 by Megan Ryder

      Cover by DesignsByRan

      Edited by Delilah Devlin

      All rights reserved.

      Originally published in the Cowboys Behaving Badly Anthology edited by Delilah Devlin in October, 2021.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

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      CHAPTER 1

      How long would she have to suffer alone before she’d paid her debt?

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