Atone (Recovered Innocence #2)(75)
BY BETH YARNALL
Recovered Innocence
Vindicate
Atone
Reclaim (coming soon)
PHOTO: SCOTT YARNALL
Bestselling author BETH YARNALL writes mysteries, romantic suspense novels, and the occasional hilarious tweet. A storyteller since her playground days, Yarnall remembers her friends asking her to make up stories of how the person “died” in the slumber-party game Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, so it’s little wonder she prefers writing stories in which people meet unfortunate ends. In middle school she discovered romance novels, which inspired her to write a spoof of soap operas for the school’s newspaper. She hasn’t stopped writing since.
For a number of years, Yarnall made her living as a hairstylist and makeup artist, and even owned a salon. Somehow hairstylists and salons seem to find their way into her stories. Beth lives with her husband, two sons, and their rescue dog in Southern California, where she is hard at work on her next novel.
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The Editor’s Corner
It’s another cold month of winter, but never fear, we have a few special somethings to warm your heart.
USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy launches a new series, Dirty Little Secrets, with Bound Beneath His Pain—ladies, meet Micah, a man who takes what he wants. New York Times bestselling author Missy Johnson introduces a young journalist who goes undercover for a hot lead, and gets seduced by the billionaire bachelor she’s supposed to be chasing, in Resist. New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff tells a story about a damaged actress who bares her soul, and falls for the one man who cares enough to listen, in LOVEGAME. Book two in the Recovered Innocence series from Beth Yarnall, Atone, is guaranteed to tug on your heartstrings, as will Charlotte Stein’s Never Sweeter, where a self-reliant college girl falls for a reformed bully. Then USA Today bestselling author Lauren Layne’s Oxford series heats up in this story of forbidden desire as a brooding jock hoping for a comeback falls for a woman who’s strictly off-limits in I Wish You Were Mine. Jill Sorenson releases a reunited love story with Against the Wall. And a popular song makes for a popular story in Ellie Cahill’s Call Me Maybe. Then plan to rev it up with Hidden Heat from Carla Swafford, an MC story that’s almost real.
Your history lesson this month includes two new Loveswept releases. First, K. C. Bateman’s Napoleonic love story, To Steal a Heart, and second is Maeve Greyson’s time-traveling phenomena, My Tempting Highlander—where time’s not the only thing changing and there may be a bit of shape-shifting going on, too!
Don’t miss a little bit of sweetness from Flirt: Renita Pizzitola’s Addicted to You, and hockey hotness with Sophia Henry’s Power Play.
And last but not least, seven books in one with Stacey Kennedy’s Club Sin series bundle where you’ll meet all the masters of sin.
Romance yourself this month with Loveswept—you know you want to.
~Happy Romance!
Gina Wachtel
Associate Publisher
Read on for an excerpt from
Reclaim
A Recovered Innocence Novel
by Beth Yarnall
Coming soon from Loveswept
Chapter 1
Nolan
I’m kind of a f*ckup. It’s not something I aspire to. It just sort of happens. The effort’s there. It’s the execution that’s lacking. I’m not a total loser. I have a few things going for me. I’m told I’m good looking, but my appearance hasn’t delivered a single date for months. I’ve never had a steady girlfriend. I went to school—a good school—and got a college degree, but that didn’t translate into a job in my chosen field. I bought the winning lottery ticket once and lost it. I don’t play the lottery anymore. The company that manufactured my first new car went out of business less than a year after I bought it.
I joke a lot about having bad luck and being cursed. That’s not what it is. I’m just one of those people who have to work harder than anyone else. Nothing comes easy to me. I get what I’m after…eventually. Usually on the third or fourth try. Never the first. I envy people who coast through life thinking about wanting something and then—BAM—they have it. My best friend, Dominic, is like that. He thought about settling down and getting married. A week later he met his wife. They talked about having children. She was pregnant within a month.
I don’t get people like that.
If it weren’t for my obstinate determination I wouldn’t have achieved a single thing in my life. Stubborn to a fault. That’s how my friends and family describe me.
At least I learn from my mistakes. My friend Mike is one of those guys who keeps doing the same thing over and over, lamenting all the while about how he can never catch a break. You gotta make your own breaks. At least those of us who don’t get things handed to them. I’m always looking out for the next thing, the next “whatever it’s going to be that’ll take me where I want to go.” However circuitous the route. No straight lines to anything for me. Nope. The road to all my achievements has been twisty and windy, filled with flooded potholes. Every once in a while something will fly out in front of me, forcing me to change course to avoid it.