Spotlight on The Bad Boy’s Gift By Sara Daniel
Spotlight on The Bad Boy’s Gift
By Sara Daniel
His gift is the only thing left from the love they
shared…and she plans to sell it.
Former bad boy, now
famous artist, Zane DeMonde laughs off an engraved invitation to return to
Regret Hollow, the same town that booted him out fifteen years ago. When he
discovers the woman who once broke his heart is putting his professional
reputation at risk by selling his old paintings, he’s no longer laughing. He’ll
do anything to stop her, even return to town … even put his heart in jeopardy
again.
High school art
teacher Julianne Truman's last chance to save her beloved art department from
budget cuts is to sell the old artwork Zane gifted her. Her heart breaks to
remove the final traces of him from her life, but she needs to finally move on
from the love she never got over.
Julianne’s life
belongs to her students, and Zane’s only goal is to protect his art. But the
moment they wrap their arms around each other, their old attraction flares to
life hot enough to incinerate them and their best intentions.
Julianne climbed
down the ladder, her knees so shaky she was surprised she didn’t collapse into
Zane’s arms. Facing the man she’d once believed would be part of every single
day of her future sent her into her biggest emotional tailspin since he’d
walked away nearly fifteen years ago.
“You surprised me,”
she admitted, her voice stronger than she’d dared hope. “Your manager led me to
believe you wouldn’t come.” Unable to resist the magnetic attraction, she
stepped toward him. He’d cut his beautiful shoulder-length black hair into a
more conventional style. Gone were the black hoodie and ripped jeans of his
youth. Now he wore chinos and a sharply pressed blue button-down shirt, open at
the neck.
“I didn’t plan this
trip, but you left me no choice. The sketches and painting I gave you are not
for sale.” The dark storms in his cobalt-blue eyes mirrored the turbulence of
the day he’d marched away from her. The same fire and frustration reflected in
all of his gallery paintings.
“I own them. I
don’t need your permission to sell them.” She held her body rigid, the fragile
shell the only thing keeping her heart from crumbling. Despite choosing this
path, the prospect of parting with the only piece of him she’d been able to
hang onto filled her with yawning emptiness.
“As long as my name
is on them and you’re planning to get rich off me, I will fight you on this to
the bitter end.”
Getting rich was so
far from the truth, she would have laughed if he hadn’t stolen her sense of
humor along with her breath. She scrambled to recover her professionalism and
treat him the way she would any other visitor or school official. “We’re
honored to have you back at Regret Hollow High.”
Her students
rightly considered him a living legend and would be awed beyond words. Her
brother, on the other hand, might burst an artery. No, surely her brother and
Zane had both moved on from their ancient history. She was the only one
clinging to a past that had meant everything to her.
Sara Daniel writes what she
loves to read—irresistible romance, from sweet to steamy and everything in
between. She grew up in a small town and was once a landlord of two uninvited
squirrels. She has no regrets about turning her back on her accounting degree
to write romance, but she deeply regrets her inability to keep track of her car
keys. Subscribe to Sara’s newsletter: http://eepurl.com/rx_AL Visit her
website: http://www.SaraDaniel.com
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