It seemed like a decade ago that I’d packed up my life-our life-and loaded it into my car. A thousand.Īfter days in the car, I’d begun questioning my every decision, especially this one.Įscaping the city had seemed like the best option. Maybe I should have made a hundred different choices.
Maybe I should have stayed in New York and dealt with the bullshit.
Maybe I should have waited and made this trip when he was older. He was only eight weeks old, and while this trip had been hard on me, for him it was probably akin to torture. We’re almost there.” We had to be close, right? This miserable trip had to end.ĭrake cried and cried, not giving a damn about my apology. How could a noise so loud come from such a small person? Frustration seeped from my pores as I desperately scanned the road for a street sign.ĭrake screamed in his car seat, that wailing, heartbreaking, red-faced scream. My palm smacked on the steering wheel, adding a whack with each word.
Juniper Hill.” I plucked the sticky note from the cupholder to double-check that I had the correct street name. Karen Lawson, The Proof is in the Reading Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. And a man like Knox Eden will only ever be a dream.No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations in a book review. Because after the first worst day of her life, Memphis learned a good life requires giving up on her dreams too. With his sharp, stubbled jaw and tattooed arms, he’s raw and rugged and everything she’s never had-and never will. Knox Eden is a beautiful, sinful dream, a chef and her temporary landlord. It’s there, on the fifth worst day of her life, that she meets the handsomest man she’s ever laid eyes on. Even if it requires working as a housekeeper at The Eloise Inn and living in an apartment above a garage. Even if it requires setting aside the glamour of her former life.
If putting the past behind her requires a thousand miles and a new town, she’ll do it if it means a better future for her son. Because moving across the country with her newborn baby is by far the craziest thing she’s ever done.īut maybe it takes a little crazy to build a good life. Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life.
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