Welcome! This week’s six comes from my current work in progress, His Brother’s Wife.

She was wearing pink and green stripes. Rafe saw her the moment he stepped out of the barn and could only stare. The dress was an eye catcher but the hat sitting on her head looked like it had a bird’s nest perched on one side, complete with feathers and a thin gauzy veil. Her golden hair was pulled into some fancy concoction with ringlets falling down her back and she carried a little umbrella embellished with lace. 

Tugging on a small pair of gloves, she turned her head, giving him a look that said she was used to men gawking at her and he could see why they did. He didn’t think he’d ever seen anything so ridiculously gaudy and tantalizing as her in his entire life. 

His Brother’s Wife
by Lily Graison

A Willow Creek Novel 

When Grace Kingston accepts a wedding proposal through a mail-order bride agency and travels across country to be married, she has no idea her bridegroom is a fourteen-year-old boy. There’s no way she can accept his offer but with depleted funds, and winter coming on, Grace has little choice but to stay. Things go from bad to worse when she meets Jesse’s older brother, Rafe. The attraction is immediate. He’s surly, rude and downright pig-headed but he makes her pulse race with a single glance.

Rafe Samuels thought to teach his brother a lesson by making him take responsibility for his rash behavior but one look at Grace and his plans go up in smoke. She isn’t the dowdy spinster he imagined and having her live in his house and not be able to have her is the worst kind of torment. But putting her out of his mind is impossible.

As fall turns to winter, Grace finds that living with the two brothers isn’t as simple a thing as she once thought. Jesse still thinks marriage is in the cards, and Rafe is a devilishly handsome distraction she doesn’t need. She can’t decide if he hates her or wants to kiss her. How can she avoid breaking Jess’s heart when it becomes clear that the attraction between her and Rafe is mutual?

His Brother’s Wife is a full-length, stand-alone novel that takes place (in) Willow Creek.

>>Releasing 2013

“If I wasn’t a lady, I’d be tempted to ask you up to my room.”

Holden’s fingers clenched into fists at his side. “If you weren’t a lady, I’d take you up on it.” 

She licked her lips and Holden’s gaze was drawn to her mouth while every nerve in his body jumped, screamed, and demanded he forget his manners. To take advantage of the situation, damn his conscience and take her to bed. Spend the rest of the night between her thighs and make his way home come morning with a memory he’d have a hard time forgetting.

The Rancher
by Lily Graison

Laurel Montgomery wanted a new life, one that didn’t include a man. She’d had enough of their pretty lies and broken promises but one night of reckless abandon weeks before taking a job as the new schoolteacher in Willow Creek would come back to haunt her. The man she thought to never see again turns out to be the father of one of her new students. A man so handsome and rugged he takes her breath away. Too bad she’s sworn off men forever. If only the stubborn man would take no for an answer.