by Jodi Thomas
“I came from Oklahoma City,” another said. “I love your work.” He pointed at Denver. “Look guys, that man looks just like the lieutenant in Soldier Force, Fight for the Planet. I’d recognize him anywhere even without the scar parting his hair.”
Gabe and Denver backed up until they hit the door.
“Great.” Denver swore. “I might as well give up working and start modeling for artists. Apparently I’m a pinup in two art forms.”
“Shut up and tell me what to do,” Gabe said.
Denver grinned. “How many bullets you got?”
“Get serious. I need help.”
Denver opened the door so suddenly, Gabe almost fell in. “All right, kids,” he yelled. “I’m going to give you a once-in-a-lifetime tour of G. L.’s workplace, but don’t touch anything. He’ll even sign your books provided you promise one thing. Tell no one where he lives.”
They all promised.
“Fat chance,” Gabe said as he moved backward into his house.
An hour later he’d signed all the books and the kids were gone. Gabe turned on the alarm system so he’d know if any teenagers decided to come calling, took a shower, and had two cans of soup cooking when Denver, clean and wet headed, walked into the kitchen.
“What you going to do G. L.?”
“Move to a desert island?” he said.
“No, I mean about this place?”
“I don’t know. There’s a few places down in the canyon where I could build and no one could find me without a map.”
“How about selling this old trap to me? I’m thinking I could use a reason to drop by this way from time to time.”
Gabe shook his head. “No. This is home. I think I’ll stay.” He’d come a long way in less than two months and learned one thing. This was where he wanted to be.
He was home and he was no longer alone. Harmony was where he wanted to stay.
Denver grinned. “Then sell me the front half of your land. You can build you and Liz a place down in the canyon. I could keep the kids off the land.” Raising his hands, he added, “No weapons, just signs, I promise.”
Gabe offered his hand. “It’s a deal. Welcome home, Lieutenant.”
Denver took his hand, and they both knew they’d finally found where they belonged.
WATCH FOR THE NEXT HARMONY NOVEL FROM
JODI THOMAS
COMING IN FALL 2011
Jodi Thomas’s Whispering Mountain series is “at the top of everyone’s favorites list�� (Romance Junkies). Now the New York Times bestselling author introduces a gambling man who’s about to discover that finding love in the Wild West takes both determination and a little luck. . . .
Gambling man Lewton Paterson wants to marry into a respectable family, even if it costs him his friendship with Duncan McMurray. After fleecing a train ticket from one of the three gentlemen picked to call on Duncan’s cousins, Lewt makes his way to Whispering Mountain. But seducing a well-bred woman is harder than Lewt thinks, and he realizes that to entice a McMurray sister, he’ll need to learn a thing or two about ranching—and love.
Emily McMurray has no intention of ever getting married, so she convinces a friend to take her place when the suitors arrive, leaving her free to run the ranch as usual. But when Lewt insists that Em teach him about ranching, she finds herself struggling to keep up both her disguise and the walls around her heart. Because the more time Em spends with Lewt, the more she desires the man she’s determined to escape. . . .
TEXAS BLUE
Coming April 2011 from Berkley!
