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OTHER BOOKS BY


KARPOV KINRADE


The Seduced Saga (New Adult Paranormal Romance)

Seduced: Rose's Story (Books 1-3) Seduced by Innocence (Book 1, Rose's Story) Seduced by Pain (Book 2, Rose's Story) Seduced by Power (Book 3, Rose's Story) Seduced by Lies (A serial novel) Volume 1 – Elysium

Volume 2 – The Emzara




The Forbidden Trilogy (Young Adult Paranormal/Sci-Fi)

Forbidden Mind (Book 1) Forbidden Fire (Book 2) Forbidden Life (Book 3) The Forbidden Trilogy (Books 1-3 with special content)

The Deveaux Series (Women's Fiction/Lit Fic/Contemporary Romance)

When the Heart Falls (Winter & Cade's Story) When the Heart Loves (Winter & Cade Sequel)



The Three Lost Kids (Children's Fantasy Lower Grade Chapter Books)

Lexie World

Bella World

Maddie World

The Death of the Sugar Fairy

The Christmas Curse

Cupid's Capture





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WARM EDITION

WHEN THE HEART FALLS

KARPOV KINRADE





Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le c?ur.

L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince Here is my secret. It is very simple:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





CADE SAVAGE





CHAPTER 1





LESLIE STICKS HER head out of the pickup truck, and her long hair catches the wind, flying out behind her like a blond wave. "Yeehaw!”

She hollers like a cowboy in an old western, and I wonder yet again what I’m doing on this date.

Ducking her head back into the truck, Leslie stretches across the seat, placing her head in my lap. "Cade, I'm bored. Let's do something fun. How about the lake? Some skinny dippin'?" She traces her finger up my thigh, her touch light through the denim of my jeans. "Maybe distract you from whatever has you lookin' so serious?"

Ah yes, that's why I'm on this date. It's supposed to be a distraction, but nothing seems to pull me from my own melancholy thoughts, not even a beautiful, if somewhat vacuous, girl.

"Sure, we can do that. I just have to go home and feed my brother first." I turn right on the dirt road, dust catching on the tires. We're already on my family’s property, horses and cows grazing in wide fields, the Texas sun baking the land with all the heat of the mid-afternoon summer day, but we still have a ways to go to reach the ranch house.

"I didn’t know you have a baby brother. But can't someone else do that? Like your mom or something?"

"I promised to do it today. It shouldn't take long." I pull up to my house, a sprawling ranch-style home with strong horizontal lines, low walls and wide front and rear porches. The roof is galvanized metal, and limestone in the walls gives it a rugged look.

"Nice house, though I expected something bigger given the Savage name and reputation," Leslie says. "Like, one of those Beverly Hills mansions you see on television."

"My dad doesn’t like to flaunt our wealth. He thinks we should live modestly, not extravagantly." Still, there's an elegant simplicity to the architecture of our home that I admire. It's not flashy, but it's high quality and well-designed using local natural resources.

The heat, a living thing you can almost see, beats down on us as we walk to the front door. Trickles of sweat leak down Leslie’s long neck, strands of her hair sticking to her body.

Cold air assaults us as we enter the house, attacking the heat and chilling our skin. Leslie shivers in her tank top and cut off jean shorts. I take off my Stetson, a rule my mother enforces religiously, and place it on the hat rack by the door. With a callused hand I push my hair out of my face and lead the way to the family room where the television fills the house with sounds of cartoons. Next to the couch, slumped in his wheel chair, sits a 16-year-old boy with the mind of a 2-year-old.