Dark: Dying Spark

By Lindsey Owens

Raelyn's life is a mess. Well it wasn't... maybe it had always been? Meet Raelyn Shepherd, a beautiful blond woman with life fully ahead of her at only 22 years old. Yet, she married young. In love with Richard a post high school sweetheart she jumped head first into a marriage which soon turned into loneliness, abuse, and flat out lack of compassion for her. 

Soon after the wedding Richard wondered to another woman and began leaving Raelyn to fend for herself every night. Which of course lead to a divorce she hesitantly wanted. 

NOW? Raelyn struggles with a life she can't afford and a life she doesn't want. She feels her life is now over. What man wants a divorced woman anyway. All she ever wanted in life was a family and a place to call home. 

Then comes in Cole. A gorgeous man with a beautiful body of muscle and tattoos. A chance encounter brings him and Raelyn together at a bar, a drunken night spent together binds them together mentally. Running off Raelyn soon realizes he's not that easy to rid. Then Cole is recruited by Raelyn's former family friend and home caretaker, he begins to break down the barriers which Raelyn isn't sure she's ready for. 

Hot nights spent doing those things that lovers should be doing and fighting during the days, Cole can only stand so much of the hurt. He struggles in his life as it is, with painful memories, without complicating it with a woman he can't have. Soon he leaves but not until one last night which will change them both dearly. 

Sad and alone, Alone and devastated, love but torturous, fate has its ways of making things work even after life throws curveballs your way. Can Cole reignite the spark which Raelyn is slowing losing?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lindsey Owens
• Release date: Oct 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386374275

Lindsey Owens

Lindsey is the author of the erotica fiction novel In the Dark as well as The Chocolatier and the new adult novel Fated Love. She also writes werewolf books, romance genre, some teen fiction, new adult fiction, fantasy, and paranormal stories. She has many more novels to come! She's just a girl who wants fun romance novels! Is that so much to ask? Not the same ol' same ol'? Not all love is slow and casual, some are fast paced and nearly overwhelming. Not all paranormal books have vampires! Not all stories have been told!  Seriously!? Lindsey took it upon herself to begin her stories for her own entertainment in the beginning of early 2000. She had not struggled with finding books that captivated her, no, instead stories began to form in her head. The more she read, the more she loved to write. Her romance stories began with her desire to write things down! More romance! More Paranormal Romance!  She lives in the South with her husband and children where she continues to put her thoughts to paper.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used factiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright 2016 by Lindsey Owens

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Summary: Raelyn’s life is a mess. Well it wasn’t... maybe it had always been? Meet Raelyn Shepherd, a beautiful blond woman with life fully ahead of her at only 22 years old. Yet, she married young. In love with Richard a post high school sweetheart she jumped head first into a marriage which soon turned into loneliness, abuse, and flat out lack of compassion for her.

Soon after the wedding Richard wondered to another woman and began leaving Raelyn to fend for herself every night. Which of course lead to a divorce she hesitantly wanted.

NOW? Raelyn struggles with a life she can’t afford and a life she doesn’t want. She feels her life is now over. What man wants a divorced woman anyway. All she ever wanted in life was a family and a place to call home.

Then comes in Cole. A gorgeous man with a beautiful body of muscle and tattoos. A chance encounter brings him and Raelyn together at a bar, a drunken night spent together binds them together mentally. Running off Raelyn soon realizes he’s not that easy to rid. Then Cole is recruited by Raelyn’s former family friend and home caretaker, he begins to break down the barriers which Raelyn isn’t sure she’s ready for.

Hot nights spent doing those things that lovers should be doing and fighting during the days, Cole can only stand so much of the hurt. He struggles in his life as it is, with painful memories, without complicating it with a woman he can’t have. Soon he leaves but not until one last night which will change them both dearly.

Sad and alone, Alone and devastated, love but torturous, fate has its ways of making things work even after life throws curveballs your way. Can Cole reignite the spark which Raelyn is slowing losing?

[1. New Adult – Fiction 2. Romance ]

Lindsey Owens

Copyright 2016 by Lindsey Owens

All rights reserved.

Chapter 1

It had been an awfully dreadful morning for Raelyn McRider, as she stubbed her toe trying to get from the kitchen to the bedroom of her, well... her temporary apartment.

Her divorce proceedings were today. She had struggled to get out of bed this morning and once she had, she couldn’t take a shower because the water had been shut off. The fridge had died, everything had rotted overnight and the toast she was going to have for breakfast, and well... it had burned. Not just to a crisp were it was still edible... NO, it was black as chimney soot. As a matter of fact, it nearly crumbled in her hand!

Great! Just fucking great! she cried out. It had been her last piece of bread and there really wasn’t anything left to eat in the house.

Knock knock! the chipper voice of Merilee Yantsie, squealed through the house. Oooo... Merilee’s face contorted unceremoniously bad time?

Oh no Mer, I just burned the last bit of toast! Raelyn cried out. Oh, and the water’s shut off. She waved her arms about. AND! LET ME NOT FORGET! And the damned refrigerator decided to die!

I’m sorry, sweetie, Merilee pouted. Well... let me see what I can find for some clothes...

Merilee had disappeared into Raelyn’s temporary bedroom, luckily and unluckily her soon to be ex-spouse, Richard McRider; a very big liar, cheater, and let’s not forget drunken pig, wanted her out as soon as possible. So he rented her this temporary piece of dump apartment so he could move his new beau in.

Well... Merilee had reappeared in the dining room, Okay Rae, here’s what you’re going to wear! She held up a sleek black dress, that one little black dress that every woman had in their closet for emergencies and a pair of red high heeled stilettos.

OH hell no! Raelyn screamed. It had been the dress she had bought, hoping, to save her marriage. But... in return she had walked in on Richard with a