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Synopsis:
Twenty-three year old, Kamryn Cunningham has left all she’s ever known and moved to a small town where no one knows her name, who her parents are, or her social status in the horseracing world. Months after opening her own bakery and evading attempts of being set up by her new best friend, she meets Brody. But Kamryn fights the instant pull between them because there’s a detail she can’t dismiss. Brody’s married.
To say that twenty-six year old, Brody Saco has had a rough marriage would be an understatement. After marrying his pregnant girlfriend, he spends the next six years in a relationship filled with hatred, manipulation, and guilt involving a tragedy that happened five years earlier. When he keeps running into his sister-in-law’s best friend, Kamryn, he can’t ignore that she makes him feel more with just one look than his wife ever has; and soon he can’t continue fight his feelings for her.
When staying apart proves to be too difficult, Brody and Kamryn enter a relationship full of stolen moments and nights that end too soon while they wait for Brody to file for divorce. But the guilt that comes with their relationship may prove to be too much for Kamryn, and Brody might not be strong enough to face the tragedy from his past in order to leave his conniving wife.
Excerpt:
My phone started ringing as I stepped out of the shower,
and I hurried to dry off before running to the nightstand. A wide smile crossed
my face when I saw his name on the screen.
“Hey! I didn’t think you were going to call.”
Brody had come over the last two nights as well, but we
were both worried about pushing our luck with a fourth. Even though I hated not
knowing when we would get to see each other, or even talk again, the surprise
of hearing from him almost made it worth it.
“Can I come over?” he asked hurriedly.
I frowned and glanced at my phone quickly before
bringing it back to my ear. “Of course, are you okay?”
“I am, I just need to see you.”
My smile came back and I took off for the door leading
to the garage. “Okay, I’ll have the garage door opened, and the other one
unlocked. Just come in.”
“Be there soon.”
Running back to my bathroom, I threw the towel on the
floor and brushed my teeth, cutting it short when I heard the door shut.
“Kam?” his deep voice called from the front of my condo.
“Shit!” I hissed, and rinsed out my mouth before running
to my room. “Be out in a sec!” Throwing on the first tank top and shorts my
hands touched, I took a few seconds to settle my breathing before walking
calmly out to meet him.
He already had his shirt and vest off, and the way his
dark eyes raked over my body had my stomach heating. There was a determined
look on his face as he took long steps to meet me, and just before we got to
each other, he shook his head and said, “I can’t do ‘slow’ anymore.”
His arms went around me, and he brought his mouth down
to mine. The minute our lips touched, something in me ignited, and a small
groan came from Brody when I opened my mouth to him and his tongue met mine.
His large hands slid down my sides, his thumbs barely grazing the side of my
breasts before continuing down to rest on my hips, pulling me closer to him. I
let the tips of my fingers trail down his chest until I hit the bottom of his
undershirt and lifted, letting him finish taking it off and dropping it on the
floor.
“If you want to stop, you need to say it now.”
“I’m not saying anything,” I whispered against his lips.
I couldn’t. We’d agreed to go slow, but nothing about
what we were doing was normal. Even though we’d kept the last three nights
pretty chaste, the charge between us had been growing steadily, and we’d been
in some sort of unspoken agreement that it was getting too hard to stay away
from each other. Both silently moving away from each other when the electricity
between us grew, both pulling away breathlessly from kisses that had our
resolve quickly slipping.
Just before his mouth slammed down on mine, he mumbled,
“Thank God.”
Kamryn Cunningham aka “The
Other Woman”
What, oh what is there to say about Kamryn? She’s a whole
lot of everything compacted into one. Kamryn grew up in a world that she
hated—a world full of labels, money, power-hungry people, and couples who are together
only for status. With the high status of her family, she didn’t have many
options on straying from this world. Things were expected of her, her life was
planned out pretty much from day one, and those she loved most were used
against her as a way of keeping her on her perfectly planned path. So she did
the only thing she could do, she disappeared. After years of planning, she took
off, changed her look, moved across the country, and opened the bakery she’d
always wanted.
Even with her new best friend constantly trying to set her
up, she stays away from men. She wants to just be herself, enjoy this time
where she’s doing what she wants, and
focus on baking. She isn’t the kind of girl who needs a man, and after the
train wreck of a forced relationship back home, she’d prefer not to have one at
all! But then she meets Brody—her best friend’s brother-in-law.
Kamryn’s heard about Brody and the horrible marriage he’s
in. His entire family is constantly on him, trying to get him to divorce the
woman who has single-handedly ruined his life—Olivia. And as the story goes
deeper, Kamyrn finds out more and more about Olivia, sees how she’s slowly
taking away all that is Brody, and learns why Brody has stayed with his
manipulative wife through the years. Despite what Kamryn has heard, she knows
better than anyone that there can be underlying reasons for staying with
someone you don’t want or love, and it doesn’t change the fact that he’s
married. Kamryn tries to stay away from him … she tries not to think about him.
But neither of those are as easy as they should be, as they have been. Everything in her calls to
Brody. It was as if she’d been living in the dark until she met him, and it’s
hard going back to the dark when she’s craving the one man who can put light in
her life. Even more when the man seeks her out, begging her to help him
understand what this attraction between the two of them means.
But loving someone who belongs to another woman is painful—even
if his marriage died five years ago. And it’s in that pain that we see, for the
first time, Kamryn’s struggle. A struggle of a girl who knows she is the other woman … a home wrecker. A girl who
can’t forget about Olivia even with the obvious hatred and issues between Brody
and his wife. A girl who has grown up hating people who do exactly what she is
doing. A girl who hates what she’s doing. And a girl who, despite everything,
is undeniably in love with a man who isn’t hers.
Molly’s Daily
Question: Have you ever met a guy who you felt like you
needed him to breathe, only to find out that he was already taken?
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