Cabin Fever
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4.3 • 9 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Take one gorgeous, down-on-his-luck man, add an irresistible, up-for-anything woman. Put them together in a smoldering little town--and watch the temperature rise.
Nolie Harper is starting over. And the bustling burg of Bethlehem is as far as the single mother can get from the gossipy one-horse town of Whiskey Creek, Arkansas. All set to claim the twin cabins she just inherited, Nolie discovers she already has a tenant: a scruffy, powerfully built stranger who makes it clear he wants to be left alone. Chase Wilson may be living like a recluse, but he’s making her yearn for togetherness--and stirring up the kind of desires that can change a woman’s whole outlook on life.
Newly sprung from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Chase is liking life alone in his rented cabin just fine. Until the redhead with the lush curves and her young daughter arrive and throw what’s left of his life into maddening chaos. With her tantalizing neighborly ways, Nolie is slowly scorching her way into his guarded heart. And her passionate kind of healing is rapidly transforming his private hideaway into a lovers’ retreat hot enough to ignite an entire town.
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Young widow Nolie Harper still lives with her late husband's parents, who control her life and that of her five-year-old daughter. When she inherits two cabins and a feed store clear across the country, Nolie jumps at the chance for a new start. Bethlehem, N.Y., seems like a bustling metropolis after tiny Whiskey Creek, and Nolie savors the freedom to reopen the feed store, make new friends and check out Chase Wilson, who rents the other cabin. A local boy who became a successful lawyer before losing everything, the handsome Chase is hiding out in scruffy and self-pitying depression. Nolie painstakingly coaxes him out of his shell, with the help of two eccentric guardian angels. Like Pappano's previous Bethlehem book, Heaven on Earth, this is a soothing read almost too soothing. The romance between Nolie and Chase is devoid of true conflict. Even the sudden arrival of Nolie's ex in-laws adds little drama, since their custody plans for their grandchild are preordained to fail. Only a subplot involving charismatic con man Cole Jackson, who falls in love with Chase's sister while fleecing the townspeople, builds true suspense. While it lacks the snappiness and wit of many contemporary romances, this seamlessly spun story is quietly uplifting.
