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Even in New Jersey!
A beautiful morning in early spring. What could possibly go wrong?
Just returned from a buying trip in England, Kate French was jet-lagged and exhausted and running on fumes. She was already running late for an appointment but a wave of dizziness forced her to pull into the shopping mall parking lot in search of a quick fix of caffeine and protein.
When the pain first hit, she ignored it and continued racing across the parking lot toward the food court. But within moments she realized something was terribly wrong as her wobbly legs gave out and she dropped to the ground. The last thing she remembered as she started to fade away was the guy in the Grateful Dead T-shirt who held her in his arms and promised he'd never let her go.
Mark Kerry didn't think of himself as a hero but the story of a Good Samaritan who had saved a woman's life in the parking lot of the Princeton Promenade was attaining the status of suburban legend. Determined to return a stack of documents that had been left behind when the ambulance swept her away, he called in some favors and tracked her down at home one week later.
The moment Kate saw him again, the world and everyone in it disappeared. She knew his voice, the smell of his skin, the way his hands felt against her skin, the taste of his mouth, everything that mattered. All the things she would ever need to know about him.
And then she took another look . . .
She veered toward the
fender of a white Escalade and quickly steered back into her own lane to a
chorus of angry horns.
"What the hell is
going on?" Paul asked. "It sounds like you're at the roller
derby."
She caught sight of
herself in the rear view mirror and the odd feeling in the pit of her stomach
intensified. A single bead of sweat was making its way down her forehead toward
her right eye. It was barely seventy degrees outside. Nobody broke into a sweat
in seventy degree weather, least of all her.
"You're right,"
she said. Everybody was right. "I'm a menace. I should get off the
road."
"Want me to drive
down there and get you?"
She turned on her blinker
and made the right into the parking lot of Princeton Promenade. "Don't be
silly. You're in Manhattan. I'll be fine after I get something to eat."
"I'll send a car for
you. We use services all over the tristate area."
She zeroed in on a spot
two lanes over and headed for it. "I'll stop. I'll eat. I'll be
fine."
"I'm gonna hold you
to it."
She whipped around the
head of the third lane from the entrance and zipped into the spot as a dented
blue Honda angled itself behind her. "Uh oh," she said.
"What's going
on?"
"Some guy in an old
blue car is glaring at me. He seems to think I stole his spot."
"Did you?"
"He didn't have a
turn signal on." She hesitated, replaying the scene in her head. "I
might have."
"Where is he?"
"Stopped right
behind me."
"Blocking you
in?"
She slunk down low in her
seat. "I never do things like this. I'm the most polite driver on the
planet."
"Is he still
there?"
"Yes."
"Want me to call
mall security? I can use another line."
She hesitated. "Maybe you—oh, thank God! He's
driving away." She watched through the rear view mirror. Good-looking men
in her own age demographic had no business wearing Grateful Dead t-shirts.
Barbara has been featured in articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Romantic Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Herald News, Home News, Somerset Gazette,among others, and has been interviewed by Independent Network News Television, appeared on the Susan Stamberg Show on NPR, and been featured in an interview with Charles Osgood of WCBS, among others.
Her awards include both Reviewer's Choice and Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times; Gold and Silver certificates from Affaire de Coeur; the RWA Region 1 Golden Leaf; and several sales awards from Bookrak. Ms. Bretton was included in a recent edition of Contemporary Authors.
Barbara loves to spend as much time as possible in Maine with her husband, walking the rocky beaches and dreaming up plots for upcoming books.
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