by Jenni Moen
Good weekend? I snorted. I threw a leg over my bike only to realize I still had the envelope and her picture in my hand. I wanted to throw them on the pavement and stomp on them. Or drive over them until they shredded to bits. I glared at the woman in the picture, and she glared back at me. Her vibrant eyes lacked their usual sparkle. Cold as ice and hard as stone, they delivered a message I’d heard plenty of times: people are rarely what they seem.
A roar burst from my chest as I stuffed the photo and envelope into a saddlebag. I felt like a fool. An angry, stupid fool. I needed to ride. I needed to clear my head so I could figure out what to do next.
I revved the engine, but before I could pull away from the curb, my eyes caught a glimpse of my reflection in the bike’s side mirror. The fury in my eyes stopped me in my tracks.
Celeste might not be the woman I thought she was, but I wasn’t exactly who I’d claimed to be either. We were both liars, hiding the pieces of our past we thought the other wouldn’t accept. I didn’t want to acknowledge the man in the mirror, but I knew what he was capable of. Maybe the most important question wasn’t whether she was a murderer, but whether she could forgive one.
The end of BLACK WIDOW …
Scott and Celeste’s story continues in
TANGLED SILK*
coming Spring of 2017
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Or where the money and the gifts came from?
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Acknowledgments
BLACK WIDOW has truly been a labor of love. There are some stories that are simply to big for one mind to handle and this one got the better of me on more than one occasion. I owe each one of the following people a hug and a cocktail for standing by me as this book has seen the best of days and the worst of days and you never left my side:
Jeff Moen, Vanessa Marie, Janosie Bordeaux, Trenda London, J.M. Miller, Staci Hart, Becca Hensley Mysoor, and Elizabeth Ward.
Special thanks to the Moen Children for eating lots of crappy food, shhh’ing during writing hours, and reserving my favorite spot on the couch for me. And hopefully, never seeing beyond this page.
Additional thanks go to:
Copy editors: Daniela Prima, Jenny Sims, and J.B. Avants
Content editor: Trenda London (Thank you for reading all 18 versions!)
Hook-ups: Emily Avants who has an ‘in’ with a man.
Cover designers: Staci Brillhart and Amy Queue
Beta readers: Vanessa Marie, Janosie Bordeaux, J.M. Miller, Staci Hart, Becca Hensley Mysoor, Liv Morris, Nicole Janko, Elizabeth Ward, Jeri Dewberry-Anderson, Julie Gustafson-Monk, RS Grey, and Emerson Shaw
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My ARC Review Team: Thank you for your continued support and for your excitement over this book.
Bloggers: Thanks for taking another chance on another indie author. I couldn’t do this without you and your support will never be taken for granted by the likes of me. Promise.
And …. YOU, the reader. There are a million books out there, and today you chose mine. You have no idea what that means to me. Thank you.
About the Author
Jenni Moen lives in her hometown in Oklahoma with her husband and three crazy, exuberant kids who have the potential to burn the house down at any moment.
When she’s not chauffeuring kids around town, performing her mom duties as a short order cook and maid, or vacuuming for her fastidious husband, she hammers away at her keyboard. Most of the time she's up to no good, but every now and then a new book is born.
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WITH THE FATHER
DEARBORN
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DEARBORN
I feel his emotions in living color. As if they are my own.
If he’s angry, I rage with him. If he’s grieving, I do too. When he thinks about the past, I’m right there, walking beside him. I am the window to his soul, and yet, in spite of that, he’s a riddle with no solution.
A puzzle with too many missing pieces.
We always want what we can’t have. All I wanted was some peace and quiet. To fall in love with someone untouched by the magic of Woodland Creek. I craved normalcy.
But not as much as I craved him.
When he returns to town a broken hero, there’s no choice to be made. I will reach him when no one else can. Together, we will face a future he doesn’t want.
Why? Because our love is pure magic.
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WITH THE FATHER
I had a choice, and I chose wrong.
I thought I lost everything.
But when the smoke finally cleared,
I discovered I wasn’t alone.
Father Sullivan was a force –
a living and breathing force,
a forbidden desire I couldn’t resist.
I didn’t want to resist.
But I wasn’t the only one who wanted him,
and by all accounts neither of us should have him.
For every action, there is a reaction.
For every choice, a consequence.
If I hadn’t chosen to live again,
I would have never known
what life could be like
With the Father
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REMEMBERING JOY
Alexis doesn't believe in fairytales.
She knows that one stupid mistake
can shatter dreams and
irrevocably shape the future.
Though her memory of that day is hazy,
she's spent the last ten years
trying to put it behind her
and focus on the future.
Adam is dark and brooding and
strangely charming.
Unfortunately, the film student's memory isn’t hazy.
And what she doesn’t remember, he can’t forget.
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