"Henry Beck, the gorgeous CEO of an advertising company, was in need of a new personal assistant. He expected HR to hire someone older, more experienced, maybe even with gray hair. Who he got instead was the beautiful, young, single mother - Claire Russell. Claire never expected her new boss to be the most gorgeous man she's ever laid eyes on. But Henry is her boss and there is no future with him. Will Henry and Claire be able to fight the obvious attraction between them? Will Henry's overbearing mother come between them?"--Back cover.
After his wife cheated on him and then asked for a divorce, Sebastian Beck was devastated. The solution? Never let another woman get close enough to hurt him. His mind was made up. He would never fall in love again. And he most certainly would never get married again. Except, he never expected the one night that he was forced to protect his nephews with deadly force to bring him back in contact with the one woman he thought he'd never see again. When Detective Raelynn Reynolds bent some hot guy's finger back in a bar a little over a year ago, she never thought she'd see him again. Honestly...she never expected to see him ever again. She definitely never expected to see him at the scene of a break-in that had a dead body just inside the back door. As Sebastian and Raelynn's lives become more intertwined with each passing day, can Sebastian get over his fear of love to keep the one woman who makes him insanely happy? Will Sebastian be able to get over his fear before it's too late? Before he could possibly lose Raelynn forever? Could fate really be that cruel?
Quinn Beck is the kind of guy who keeps to himself. He's quiet and reserved. He's also got this thing about being touched, he doesn't like it. The reason? It's the secret he's been keeping inside for twenty years. Quinn has told no one what happened to him when he was ten. No. One. His plan is to take his it to his grave, but his plan slowly starts to deteriorate when his boss hires a bubbly, outgoing, fidgety, drop-dead gorgeous woman from France and sticks her in his office. Margot Leclair moved to the U.S. in hopes to further her architectural and interior design career. Her new boss puts her in the office with his leading architect, who is a bit quirky but extremely handsome with his dark hair and dark eyes. Margot has a hard time keeping her own eyes off of him. She also finds him intriguing and is curious about what makes him the way he is. She cannot help her growing attraction to him, even though she knows that he finds her irritating. After almost a year of working together on a project and in the same office, their boss sends them on a trip to London for an Architectural Seminar. It turns into the trip from Hell that has Margot returning with a sprained ankle and Quinn even more introverted then normal. Even after having a horrible trip, Margot wants to be with Quinn, yet he continues to fight their obvious connection. Then a death in Margot's family sends them to France only days after getting home from London. While in France, an argument between Margot and Quinn sends Quinn to a bar, where he decides to drink himself stupid. Will he reveal his secret to Margot while drunk off his ass or will he close himself off even more? Can Quinn overcome his problems and his past to be with the one woman who wants him no matter what or will Quinn's past come back to bite him and ruin everything he and Margot have together?
The Old Mine Road, considered the first road in America designed for wheeled vehicles, was built three hundred years ago by Dutch settlers for access to the mines of the Minisink country. It began in Kingston, New York, wove through Sussex and Warren counties in New Jersey, and ended near the Delaware Water Gap. Many changes have taken place in these regions since C. G. Hine recorded his observations and printed The Old Mine Road for his friends in 1908. Bulldozers have obliterated much of what he saw as he took his readers along the length of the road, describing the natural beauty of the countryside and relating the history and legends linked with the road and the people who lived on its route. This new printing is a facsimile of the first 1908 edition. Henry Charlton Beck's introduction gives a publishing history of the book and provides a biographical sketch about Hine.
