Second Chances: Granite Junction

By Megan Ryder

Overwhelmed trying to hold onto her dead husband's ranch, a lonely widow turns to the one man she can't have for a night of passion.

 

Jessie McAdams has been fighting to hang on to the ranch her husband loved, but ultimately killed him, just as it's slowly killing her, body and soul, not to mention financially. She also harbors a secret passion for his best friend, one she knows she can never act upon. Until one day a freak spring snow storm traps them both in a line cabin. Knowing she is about to lose everything, should she take a chance for one night of happiness before it all slips away?

 

Slade Donovan has harbored a secret love for Jessie since the day his best friend brought her home from college, but the friendship code dictated that he stay away. Even after his friend died, he couldn't make a move, though he was there for her as best he could. But his resolve is tested when Jessie approaches him in a cabin for one night of passion.

 

But when he finds out she plans to leave Granite Junction forever, will he finally step up and declare his love or let her go forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Megan Ryder
• Release date: Dec 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215048368

Megan Ryder

Ever since Megan Ryder discovered Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught while sneaking around the “forbidden” romance section of the library one day after school, she has been voraciously devouring romance novels of all types. Now a romance author in her own right, Megan pens sexy contemporary novels all about family and hot lovin’ with the boy next door. She lives in Connecticut, spending her days as a technical writer and her spare time divided between her addiction to knitting and reading.

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Second Chances

SECOND CHANCES

A Granite Junction Short Story

GRANITE JUNCTION

MEGAN RYDER

SECOND CHANCES

Jessie McAdams has been fighting to hang on to the ranch her husband loved, but ultimately killed him, just as it's slowly killing her, body and soul, not to mention financially. She also harbors a secret passion for his best friend, one she knows she can never act upon. Until one day a freak spring snow storm traps them both in a line cabin. Knowing she is about to lose everything, should she take a chance for one night of happiness before it all slips away?

Slade Donovan has harbored a secret love for Jessie since the day his best friend brought her home from college, but the friendship code dictated that he stay away. Even after his friend died, he couldn't make a move, though he was there for her as best he could. But his resolve is tested when Jessie approaches him in a cabin for one night of passion.

But when he finds out she plans to leave Granite Junction forever, will he finally step up and declare his love or let her go forever?

Copyright © December 2022 by Megan Ryder

Cover by DesignsByRan

Edited by Delilah Devlin

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Originally published in the Cowboys Behaving Badly Anthology edited by Delilah Devlin in October, 2021.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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CHAPTER 1

How long would she have to suffer alone before she’d paid her debt?

Considering the person to whom she owed the debt was dead, it would probably be until the end of time, and that was a long time to go without a man-given orgasm. Her fingers and toys could only do so much, but they would have to suffice because the only man she wanted in her bed was