A Kiss, A Dance & A Diamond
A woman in her world – living a lovingKieran O’Sullivan is back in Cedar River, and so is Nicola Radici, who is as beautiful as the day he left her behind. The last thing Nicola wants is to forgive and forget. But when Kieran connects with her nephews, Nicola must let him into their life – and maybe her heart!
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Kieran OâSullivan never let anythingâor anyoneâstand in his way.
Even the girl he claimed to love.
But fifteen years later, the successful doctorâs back in Cedar River. So is Nicola Radici, still as beautiful as the day he left her behind. The last thing Nicola wants is to forgive and forget. But when Kieran connects with her nephews, their guardian has to let him into their life. And maybe even her heart.
HELEN LACEY grew up reading Black Beauty and Little House on the Prairie. These childhood classics inspired her to write her first book when she was seven, a story about a girl and her horse. She loves writing for Mills & Boon True Love, where she can create strong heroes with soft hearts and heroines with gumption who get their happily-ever-afters. For more about Helen, visit her website, www.helenlacey.com.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07755-2
A KISS, A DANCE & A DIAMOND
© 2018 Helen Lacey
Published in Great Britain 2018
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For Gareth and Stephen.
Because big brothers are the best.
Contents
Kieran OâSullivan was home.
For good.
He rubbed the back of his neck, stretched out his spine and figured he should down another cup of coffee since he had three hours to go before the end of his double shift. It had been a busier-than-usual afternoon in the ER at the Cedar River Community Hospital, but nothing like heâd been used to when heâd lived and worked in Sioux Falls. Still, heâd treated two minor burns, a dislocated shoulder, a baby with a bad case of croup and a teenager whoâd fractured her arm after falling off a horse.
He was five days into his new job at the hospital.
Five days of unpacking boxes and settling into the apartment heâd rented.
Five days pretending life was sweet.
And five days that heâd managed to avoid running into Nicola Radici.
He ignored the twinge in his gut and the way the word coward mashed its way into his thoughts. Because it wasnât as though he hadnât seen Nicola or spoken to her in the past twelve months. He had. Several times. But this was different. He was now back in Cedar River for good. Back in the town where heâd been born and raisedâa town of a few thousand that sat in the shadow of the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Yeah, back home for good with no way of avoiding her.
High school sweethearts.
The damned phrase still made him cringe.
It had been fifteen years since theyâd spectacularly broken up after graduation. Since then heâd married and divorced, and he knew Nicola had a broken engagement in her past...so there was no logical reason he should have any feelings about her one way or another.
But he did.
He had guilt.
By the bucket load.
For over a decade and a half, heâd regularly returned to Cedar River to visit his family. But heâd usually managed to avoid running into her. Sheâd moved to San Francisco, gone to college, gotten a life that didnât include him...just as heâd told her to do. While heâd gone to college and med school, ending up at the largest hospital in Sioux Falls. That was where he met Tori, who soon became his wife and the mother of his son. Everything had worked out as heâd imagined it would.
