Trying her best to
ignore the music Miss Letitia had picked for the service, Brooke
clenched her hands together to keep them still and wondered if she
could get up to give her own eulogy to the little lady they were
remembering today.
Not one thing. They
hadn't allowed one of Mamie's requests to be honored at her own damn
funeral. It seemed that the dead in Rupert Springs didn't have the
same rights their fluttery, iron-willed surviving sisters did. Miss
Letitia and Miss Emily, both often married and yet still clinging to
that fond affectation of Southern womanhood, stood together in the
front row, tiny sparrows in their old straw hats and organdy dresses,
white gloves and prayer books. Dabbing overwrought and suspiciously
dry eyes, they oversaw the funeral they'd personally planned for the
sister they'd never understood
"Excuse me,
can you take that damn hat off?" a new voice suddenly whispered
in her ear. "Person can't see over somebody your size, much less
one with a Frisbee on her head."
All of Brooke's
anxiety escaped her in a whoosh as she whipped around on her
attacker. "Well, if it isn't the star of stage, screen and Saudi
Arabia," she hissed right back, fighting hard to keep the
delighted grin from her face as the congregation swung around in an
attempt to read the second verse and watch the newcomer at the same
time. "Where the hell have you been?"
Coop shot Brooke a
brash, completely unrepentant grin. "It's one. I'm here. And I
have the bribe."
Pete Cooper and Brooke Ferguson were
once childhood friends who spent evenings watching TV with Pete's
Aunt Mamie.
Now Pete is a famous cable news anchor who earned his stripes in war zones, and Brooke watches Pete on the same old TV in the same small town.
Then Aunt Mamie passes away, and everything changes.
When Pete and Brooke set out on a road trip to fulfill Mamie's last wishes, they discover more than tornadoes, Hell's Angels, New Orleans Jazz Funerals, and one unique antebellum mansion. They find they might just be falling in love.
About Eileen
New York Times bestselling, RWA Hall of
Fame author Eileen Dreyer has published 31 romance novels in most
genres, 8 medicalforensic suspenses, and 10 short stories.
2015 sees Eileen enjoying critical
acclaim for her foray into historical romance, the Drake’s Rakes
series, which Eileen labels as Regency Romantic Adventure that
follows a group of Regency aristocrats who are willing to sacrifice
everything to keep their country safe. She is also working on her
first nonfiction book, TRAVELS WITH DAVE, about a journey she's
been taking with a friend's ashes.
A retired trauma nurse, Eileen lives in
her native St. Louis with her husband, children, and
large and noisy Irish family, of which
she is the reluctant matriarch. She has animals but refuses to
subject them to the limelight.
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