Desire, Montana Dreams Book 3 Novella

By Cait Jarrod

Cadence Duvall has a heartbreaking secret. Rather than risk rejection, she pushes away the man who taught her the true meaning of desire. Two years later, her heart still hurts and the guilt remains. She heads to Bluebird Valley, Montana, and her best friend, to bury the memories of a tragedy caused by her careless actions.

After Cadence breaks his heart, Bradley Lovett severs ties with his overbearing parents and takes a position in Florida as a horse trainer at a thoroughbred stable. An urgent phone call from his sister, begging him to help the woman he only wants to forget, sends him to Montana. When Bradley tries to help Cadence face her secrets, he finds forgiveness may be the key to their happiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cait Jarrod
• Release date: Feb 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781523620661

Cait Jarrod

Someone’s always to blame...In my case, I bestow the blame for my love of books and writing on my mother, knowing she would love it. A year after she died from cancer, I picked up her favorite pastime as a way to be close to her and found a niche I didn’t know I possessed much less loved.The stories I made up in my head as a child, never left, and now that my childhood muse has grown into an adult version, I feel blessed to offer entertainment. Recently, my writing has changed from full-length romantic suspense to romance novellas. My passion has allowed me to become multi-published and to achieve award-winning status, and become an Amazon Best Seller.My hope: you’ll pick up one of my books, lose yourself in the story, laugh, possibly cry—a good one—and smile.I’d love to hear from my readers, you can contact me [e-mail] my newsletter at https://confirmsubscription.com/h/i/76093C2B11569E7CJoin my street team: Cait’s Classy Chicks at https://www.facebook.com/groups/629181983825796/Happy reading!~Cait

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What Others Are Saying about the first two books in the Montana Dreams series…

"Cait's insightful writing made me feel their emotions and believe their reactions the whole time."

~ Lea Bronsen, award-winning author

"It was the kind of book that made you sorry when it was over. I immediately fell in love with Matt and Trina from the first moment I met them. You could feel their chemistry and connection, even at their young age, in every word Cait wrote."

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"Matt and Trina have such kindness in them that you want nothing more than for them to find happiness. I liked the growth you see in both characters and their changing relationship with maturity and age. This is a very well written book and it left me wanting to experience every up and down with Matt and Trina. You even feel attached to the secondary characters and I am hoping they all get their own book."

~Book Boyfriend Addict

"The chemistry between Travis and Autumn is so instant, you literally feel it in every word Cait writes. It’s not what the characters actually say to each other but their feelings and descriptions on their faces that make you believe it. Their story will make you laugh out loud one minute and want to give out hugs the next."

~JanisF, blogger

Dear Reader:

Thank you for purchasing the last installment, Desire, in the three-book series about living your dreams. Every book in the Montana Dream series stands alone, but if you want to live the romances in order…

Montana Dreams Series

DIVINE

November 23, 2015

DESTINY

December 14, 2015

DESIRE

January 18, 2016

Thank you for visiting Bluebird Valley, Montana!

Happy Reading!

~Cait

Also by Cait Jarrod

~Band of Friends Series~

Kidnapped Hearts, Book 1

Mystic Hearts, Book 2

~Misc~

Rekindled

Entangled Love

Breaking All Barriers

Girl Code Anthology

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DESIRE

Montana Dreams Series

Book 3

By

Cait Jarrod

A Montana Dreams novel, book 3

COPYRIGHT © 2016 by Cait Jarrod

COVER ART © 2015 by Jays Covers by Design http://www.jayscoversbydesign.com/

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, please contact the author via email at [e-mail]

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

ASIN: B01A3QTJUC

Dedication

To my dear friend Patricia Smart, who not only reads every one of my books in the critique stage, she thankfully gives me her honest opinion. I love hashing out the details with you!

As always: to my hubby and gorgeous daughters.

A huge thanks to Nancy Goodman who gave me permission to use a few of her profound Facebook statuses.

Thank you to my awesome street team, Cait’s Classy Chicks, for their suggestions for naming the horses and the bars.

Names picked were given by Brittney O’Bryan, Janis Frish, Angel Nicholas, and Julie Falkowski

Acknowledgements

The gals that helped polish Desire either by critiquing, plotting, and beta reading. Thank you!

Patricia Smart, Norma Redfern, Janis Frisch, Aeicha Matteson

Chris Hall, editor

Lea Bronsen, editor

Jay Aheer, cover artist

Chapter One

A beer in his hand, sand under his feet, and gorgeous girls dancing in skimpy bikinis was the ideal life for any bachelor. The waves, the warm sun, and the endless no-expense-spared should be a highpoint for Bradley Lovett.

Every evening, one, two, even three wanna-be-millionaire-kept-wives tried to follow him and each of his employer friends back to their villas along the beach. As long as the sun shone, girls came out of the woodwork to parade in front of them. His employers, Derek and Trey, coveted the playboy practices along Florida’s panhandle. He did not.

A large-breasted woman sashayed toward Bradley. With her hands in the air, her hips swayed to keep up with the momentum of her bouncing breasts. All show; no depth. The buxom blonde, who obviously thought he had money, performed as if he were the king and she his concubine. She jiggled, twerked, and gave gestures as to what her mouth would do. At twenty-nine, he wanted a relationship; one that held more importance than just sex.

Relaxed in an Adirondack chair, he sipped his beer, listened to the gulls gawking, and waited for the telltale sign she would move in for the kill. The show was fun, but he didn’t go for the after-party. Once in a while, when his shorts grew too tight and he needed release, he’d take advantage of their offerings, but he never engaged his heart or gave his name.

This type of existence wasn’t for him. He would kill time until meaning came back to his life. Disinherited after a fling with his surgeon father’s only married female partner, he’d left Maryland and removed the women that haunted him. The two women weren’t interchangeable. One he slept with to piss off his dad, the other…compared to a stampede of wild horses running over his heart. Horses didn’t care about the pain their hooves imposed as long as they got the hell away from whatever scared them. Same with her. Cadence Duvall didn’t give a crap about the ache she inflicted on him with her insensitive demands, as long as she got her way.

Fantasizing again? From the chair beside him, Trey straightened, snatched the approaching woman by her waist, and stopped her from reaching Bradley.

Thanks. He nodded his appreciation at the tanned, blond-haired boss who, by appearances, missed his surfer boy calling.

You bet. But times a wastin’. Plenty of babes to take your mind off the heartbreaker.

Bradley’s fists clenched. Beer flowed out of the top of the crushed can, coating his fingers, and dripping down his bare leg. He didn’t want to dwell on Cadence; she had thrown him aside as if he were a horse with a broken leg, only good for dog food. He didn’t want to deal with the reason why he wanted to piss off his dad. He just didn’t want to feel.

The dark-haired Casanova employer, Derek, approached with a woman under each arm, their barely-covered bodies flanking his sides. Don’t nag him. We get more girls this way. He kissed each of the blondes’ cheeks, and they gushed as if they were special.

Nope, this existence didn’t fit him, but he wanted it, too. Living carefree, only concerned with business and themselves, sounded darn good to him.

Ever gonna tell us about her? Trey was persistent if nothing else. No wonder the man made a fortune on customized horseshoes. He was one hell of a salesman.

Nothing to tell, Bradley lied. Cadence had cracked his heart. About two years ago, she and his sister were involved in a car accident that almost took Trina’s life. The agony from that time still sent a piercing pain through him. On the morning Cadence planned to leave the hospital, he arrived in hopes to take her home and talk about moving their relationship forward. And that’s what happened. She moved it forward, right out the door. He tucked tail and left. More like, he cradled his cracking heart under his arm and vamoosed.

Whatever you say, Derek said, taking Bradley’s refusal to confide in stride. I’m heading to the villa. With a smug grin, he squeezed the women’s shoulders and headed down the beach.

Open up, you’ll feel better. Trey gave him a pointed glare. Or dip your stick and forget about her. Catch ya later! He nodded and followed his partner with the buxom blonde who had eyed Bradley.

He rested his head on the chair, sucked in a breath, and closed his eyes. With the other gold diggers not receiving attention, he hoped the remainder of the dancing girls would soon leave. He wasn’t immune to them. They stirred his body, not with feelings but with lust. Sleeping with them, no matter if they were okay with the wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am scenario or not, left him feeling like a chump.

The aftermath of his revengeful affair didn’t help. His father blamed him for Cybil’s failed marriage. It didn’t matter that the woman said she was estranged from her husband. With one motive: to piss off his father by sleeping with one of his female partners, he didn’t care where the woman lived or whether she was married or not. Still, he had asked. She separated months prior. The tan line on her left ring finger should have been a clue that the breakup had just happened. But with blinders on to hurt his overbearing prick of a father, he’d charged ahead and missed clues.

He figured dating his father’s partner would tick him off enough to hurt his godlike attitude. Not until he sat on the Florida beaches, mesmerized by the gentle water splashing on shore, did it occur that in the process of sticking it to his father, he’d degraded his own integrity.

The rage inside him brewed for years. It started with his parents’ belittling, then their attempt to make his sister’s friends feel inferior. Mix that with Cadence turning him away, he was a ticking time bomb. His parents lit the fuse when they’d said Bradley was no better than the trash Trina married. He flipped their stuck-up asses the bird, hardened his heart, and made sure their pain compared in intensity to what they’d inflicted on him and his sister since childhood. By having an affair with his father’s partner, he got them right where it counted, in their self-importance ego.

Blaming his parents for his actions resolved his turmoil, but it didn’t sit well with his image. His actions, no matter the reasons, were his own decisions. His mistakes. His guilt.

The ocean air drifted over him, and his thoughts went back to when he feared he lost his sister. Seeing her lying in a hospital bed not moving unnerved him. Yet, their parents worried more about removing a guy who they didn’t deem worthy from Trina’s life than her condition. Maybe he was unfair in his assumption, but who frets about the boyfriend when their child won’t wake up? Damn, their arrogance! Thank goodness when Trina woke, her strong-mindedness overpowered them, and she went after the man who’d saved her life at fourteen. In Montana, she reconnected with Matt, made a home, and found her dream job. Not long ago, Matt’s brother Travis moved next door to them, found a woman he couldn’t live without, and opened a scenic tour business, following his vision.

Montana dreams.

Bradley would give anything to find his dream, even considered moving to Montana in hopes of finding the happiness his sister and friends found there. The thought had blown away when he learned his sister’s best friend visited. Cadence, the woman who stole his heart and never gave it back.

He opened his eyes and stared at

Reviews for Desire, Montana Dreams Book 3 Novella

[jbault-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a great book to introduce the Seductors Series. I loved the intensity of the situations that Jade has to put herself through in order to complete a job that is bound to change her entire life. Jade is a seductor which means she either completes the job or someone else will. If she fails it could cost her life or the life of someone else, and who would want that riding on their conscience?!? She is on a mission to steal a top secret file, but seems as if Oliver has a mission of his own, to get Jade to "desire." I loved this story and I can't wait for more to come from this series!