❤️ EXCERPT REVEAL ❤️𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 by L.B. Dunbar is the second book in the Sterling Falls series, a small-town series with several silver foxes and is releasing January 25th!! Take a peek inside.

❤️ EXCERPT REVEAL ❤️

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 by L.B. Dunbar is the second book in the Sterling Falls series, a small-town series with several silver foxes and is releasing January 25th!! Take a peek inside.

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EXCERPT:

“I almost kissed you.” His voice isn’t more than a whisper.

My eyes momentarily close and a fresh stab wound opens from this man. “Please. Please, don’t say that.”

A kiss would have been harsh and hasty, but it still would have been a kiss. Unwarranted passion rips through me, threatening to tear me in two. There’s no doubt if his lips met mine, my desire to feel wanted would have overcome my resistance. I’d have pulled him to me, if for no other reason than to feel the thrust of him entering me, the thrill of connection, and the foolish sense that we could be more again.

“Tell me you don’t feel it, Halle.” Knox’s eyes search mine, desperately seeking confirmation. His hands cup my upper arms and jostle me a little. “Tell me there isn’t unfinished business between us.”

My mouth pops open to deny him, yet how do I explain myself? All my emotions collide and conflict inside me.

I won’t explain the loneliness of my marriage or the failure of it. Not to him. Not to the man I’d thought was my forever.

Knox said what matters most is getting up from a fall, and I’m standing. The ground is shaky and my future uncertain, but dammit, I’m still standing. And the last thing I need is to fall for Knox Sylver again. To believe he really cares about me.

I shake my head, unable to tell him that kissing him might hurt but it also might heal.

He lost me. And I lost him. And in the span of a kiss, I’m certain I’d be found. But I can’t trust him to find me. This time, I need to find myself.

“Tell me.”

Startled by his tone, his nearness overwhelms me. My fingers twitch, desperate to clutch his tee again and tug him to me, demand he kiss me like he had when we were teens. Make me lose my head and forget the past twenty years of disappointment. But that wouldn’t be fair.

Not to him. Not to me. Not to my beautiful children.

“It can’t.” I whimper. “Nothing matters. Not the past. Not the present. My only focus needs to be the future.” My children and me.

“Don’t say it doesn’t matter. It matters to me.”

Blurb: 

Love wasn’t part of the blueprint when high school sweethearts reunite in their small town. But this former military man never forgot the girl he left behind and he’s more determined than ever to rebuild their relationship brick by brick and heart by heart.

Getting locked in the men’s restroom during my mother’s funeral wasn’t exactly how I expected to run into my high school sweetheart. The one who got away. The one who broke my heart.

I could toss the busted doorknob in my hand at him, but I’d prefer to get the heck away. Because twenty years later, Knox Sylver isn’t a teenage boy anymore but a broad-shouldered, thick scruff man with eyes that still look at me like I’m the only person in the room.

As a newly divorced mother of two teenagers, it’s been a long time since anyone sees me. And Knox is definitely watching.

Unfortunately, he made choices in the past and I wasn’t one of them.

According to him, that is ancient history. 

Also, according to him, it’s never too late for a second chance. He’s out to prove he’s solid and stable, having returned to our small hometown, in a better place after a career in the military. He’s a local hero as a fireman and he wants to rekindle the flame between us.

I’m the one with decisions this round.

Do I stay where memories hurt? Or do I leave my past, and Knox, behind me again?

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From L.B. Dunbar comes an all-new small-town romance with a big family and the silver fox swoon one expects from her love over-40 romances.

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