He touched her hair. “You are everything to me,” he murmured. He began lightly tracing her collarbone with the tip of his finger. A tingle ran down her spine as her breath came faster. He gave her that crooked smile that made her go weak in the knees, and then his lips came down on hers, igniting a flame that coursed through her body, turning her bones to mush. When they pulled away, they were both breathing hard.
Something caught the corner of her eye, and she saw Dan, standing at the corner of Lila’s house. She blinked, and then he was gone. Even though she’d only caught a glimpse, she had the distinct impression that he was smiling. And she knew, in some inexplicable way that was impossible to put into words—that she would never see him again.
A look of concern crossed Hank’s features. “Are you okay?”
She gave him a tender smile, letting herself get lost in those fathomless turquoise eyes. “Yes, everything is great.”
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Jennifer grew up in rural Alabama and loved living in a town where “everybody knows everybody.” Her love for writing began as a young teenager when she wrote stories for her high school English teacher to critique. She feels that it’s a great privilege to be able to write with her mother, Sandra Poole. “Writing together adds a depth and spice to our work that neither of us could get independently,” she says.
Jennifer has B.A. in English and Social Sciences from Brigham Young University where she served as Miss BYU Hawaii in 1989. Before becoming an author, she worked as the owner and editor of a monthly newspaper named The Senior Times. In addition to her love for writing, Jennifer works in the home design industry. She and her husband owned an interior design gallery where she specialized in custom window treatments and floral arrangements. Jennifer continues to do interior design for select clients.
She now lives in the Rocky Mountains with her family and spends her time writing, carpooling, attending basketball games, and doing all of the wonderful things that make up the life of a busy wife and mother.
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Sandra grew up in a small community in northeast Alabama called Alder Springs, the setting of Sandra and Jennifer's first novel, Livin' in High Cotton. It was there that she developed a deep love for literature in a two-classroom country school. She recalls that every afternoon the teachers would bring their classes together and read such classics as Rip Van Winkle, Moby Dick, The Headless Horsemen, and The Taming of the Shrew while all their students sat on the floor.
Sandra has worked in the administrative field for over twenty-five years. She worked her way through college while her daughters were very young and completed a four-year degree in three years. Later, she earned a Masters in Business Administration. Her experience has ranged from being an executive secretary and human resource manager for Fortune 500 companies to being an assistant to one of the vice presidents at the university where she eventually retired. She now works in the education field.
For Sandra, writing is a continual journey of discovery. She has so many ideas for other books running through her mind that it's hard to focus on one at a time.
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