The King’s Alley Cat

By Lee-Ann Wallace

Allison Thompson isn’t going home to see the man who broke her heart four years ago. She has an idea she wants to talk to her brother about that could change both their lives, for the better. A change that would mean she’d never step foot in Ainsworth again.

Cole Matthews let her go once, and he has no intention of letting her go again. But meddling family, a broken car, and an old man aren’t the only things coming between them.

Ally will have to stop running long enough to give Cole the chance he needs to apologise and explain, and catching the king’s alley cat has never been easy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Aug 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781487411206

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She’s always been his, even after he broke her heart.

Allison Thompson isn’t going home to see the man who broke her heart four years ago. She has an idea she wants to talk to her brother about that could change both their lives, for the better. A change that would mean she’d never step foot in Ainsworth again.

Cole Matthews let her go once, and he has no intention of letting her go again. But meddling family, a broken car, and an old man aren’t the only things coming between them.

Ally will have to stop running long enough to give Cole the chance he needs to apologise and explain, and catching the king’s alley cat has never been easy.

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The King’s Alley Cat

Copyright © 2017 Lee-Ann Wallace

ISBN: 978-1-4874-1120-6

Cover art by Angela Waters

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The King’s Alley Cat

By

Lee-Ann Wallace

Chapter One

Ally opened the door of her car and breathed in the hot, dusty November air. The sun scorched her bare skin, and the dry—almost summer—heat evaporated the sweat on her body before it even had a chance to run in little rivulets down her spine.

Home had never felt so good.

Closer to the coast, the dampness made your clothes cling to every inch of you, but here at home in Ainsworth, in Queensland’s west, the air was dry as dust. Summers didn’t kill you with humidity, they just killed you with heat.

She climbed from her car and closed the door of her old rust bucket with a bang. Her poor girl had done so well to get all the way home without conking out.

The blazing sun drove her off the street and onto the timber-planked veranda of Sullivan’s General Store. It was the same as it had been four years ago. She paused for a minute, staring at the display of leather riding boots in the front window. A multitude of memories welled up and tried to choke her.

Cole helping her on a pony when she was five. Cole making her wipe her muddy feet before going