NOTE: Buy links aren’t included yet, as I
don’t have them. Though I did include a link to the Goodreads page. I’ll send a
follow up email with buy links when I get them. Should be about 2 weeks prior
to release, so around March 2nd.
Title: Her Soldier’s Touch
Author: J.M. Stewart
Genre: contemporary romance
Publisher: Crimson Romance
Word Count: 70, 000
Release date: March 16, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4405-8137-3
ISBN-10: 1-4405-8137-1
Blurb
Experience has taught single mother Rachel Madison
that the only person she can truly rely on is herself. But what she wants most
in the world—to give her son the life she never had growing up—means she must
put her faith in a man who once walked out on her.
Retired from the service, U.S. Army Sergeant First
Class Colton Taylor makes a detour to Phoenix to bury his brother. Nobody is
more surprised than he is to see Rachel waiting for him at the airport. He
regrets the morning he walked away from her, but coming from an abusive home
taught Colt to put limits on all his relationships—especially this one.
So when he discovers he has a son, Colt knows this is
a chance to prove to himself he’s not a chip off the old block. Turning his
life around doesn’t come naturally, though. Then a drug dealer crops up from
his brother’s dark past, threatening their son and forcing Colt and Rachel to
face their demons … and each other.
Sensuality Level: Sensual
Excerpts—please choose only one
Excerpt #1
“How the hell could you not tell me I had a son?”
Rachel darted a panicked glance at the hallway behind her then
narrowed her eyes.
“Keep your voice down. He doesn’t know. When and if I decide to tell him, it’ll be on my terms.” She drew up straight and angled
her chin a bit higher, but he didn’t miss the hurt that flared in her eyes. “You left, Colt. Left without a
word and never came back. Or did you
forget that part?”
He folded his arms, firmly ignoring the regret that sank, hard and
cold and heavy, in his stomach. If he acknowledged it, he’d have to face the
very real possibility he’d become what he loathed, and he would not go there.
Not now. “You still should have told me. Jake knows how to reach me. Rosa knows
how to reach me. Hell, any army base in the United States could figure out
where I was in case of emergency. I had a right to know I have a son.”
Rachel froze where she stood, her eyes wide and searching his. Several
heartbeats later, she let out a heavy sigh, her shoulders rounding, and dropped
her arms to her sides. “You’re right. It’s why I met you at the airport. I was
wrong to keep him from you.”
The dejection in her tone cut him to the quick. Regret erupted in
Rachel’s eyes, hitting his chest in a sucker punch. His anger slipped from his
fingers as years of denial, of longing, rushed up on him. Damn his weak hide.
One soft sigh from her and all his good intentions went up in a puff of smoke.
If he was honest with himself, they always had.
Excerpt #2
“Maybe I do it to protect you. Did you ever think of that? I don’t do
relationships, Rach. You’re better off finding someone who can give you what
you need, because I’m not that man.”
That damn stony wall made her want to hit him just to see him react.
She clenched her fists. “Coward.”
Colt’s head jerked in her direction. His gaze seared into her as he
studied her.
“I don’t need your protection.” She glared at him. “I’m perfectly
capable of looking out for myself.”
He turned his body fully toward her and copied her stance, folding his
arms across his chest. “All right. You really want to know what I’m thinking?
Telling me you want me because our son needs his father wasn’t what I hoped
you’d say. I wanted you to tell me you wanted me.
But, I know damn well I have no right to want that, for exactly that reason … I
walked out. And, for the record, I didn’t tell you all that stuff that night to
scare you. I was being honest.”
His body heat radiated against her side as he closed the distance
between them, stepping into her personal space then taking another step, until
his scent of soap and man washed over her and his firm body brushed hers. His
voice lowered to a husky murmur, his breath whispering across her cheek.
“More than I should have been. Those eyes of yours pull things out of
my mouth I shouldn’t say. You’re my ultimate weakness, sweetheart.”
Bio
J.M. Stewart is a coffee and chocolate addict who lives
in the Pacific Northwest. She’s a hopeless romantic who believes everybody
should have their happily ever after.
Find J.M. Stewart at: http://authorjmstewart.com/,
on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authorjmstewart, and on Twitter
@JMStewartWriter.
KEYWORDS: soldier, PTSD, secret
baby, friends to lovers, Phoenix, single mother
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