To Love a Cop
SHE'S SWORN TO PROTECT HER HEARTAfter what Laura Vennetti and her son have been through, she’s avoided all contact with the police. Then her son brings detective Ethan Winter into their lives. Despite how appealing—and gorgeous—he is, it’s safe to say Ethan isn’t her dream man.Immediately, though, Laura can see how different he is from her late husband. Ethan is thoughtful, considerate and a good influence on her son. Add in the intense attraction between her and Ethan… The temptation to give in is irresistible. To her surprise, Laura feels the wounds of the past healing, making her wonder if she could love this cop forever.
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Sheâs sworn to protect her heart
After what Laura Vennetti and her son have been through, sheâs avoided all contact with the police. Then her son brings detective Ethan Winter into their lives. Despite how appealingâand gorgeousâhe is, itâs safe to say Ethan isnât her dream man.
Immediately, though, Laura can see how different he is from her late husband. Ethan is thoughtful, considerate and a good influence on her son. Add in the intense attraction between her and Ethan⦠The temptation to give in is irresistible. To her surprise, Laura feels the wounds of the past healing, making her wonder if she could love this cop forever.
âYou donât want to come in?â Jake sounded disappointed.
Ethan looked across the front seat at Jake then toward the front of the Venettisâ house. âIâd better not.â Even though there was nothing Ethan would have liked better. Butâ¦Laura had had him to dinner. Sheâd blushed a couple of times. Once, their fingers had brushed when she passed him a dish, and sheâd stopped talking midsentence and gone very still, a hint of yearning in her eyes.
Or so heâd convinced himself.
No, he wasnât going to push it.
Andâ¦heâd better think long and hard before he spent any more time with Laura. He had a hard time picturing her having casual affairs. Anything elseâwell, they had some major strikes against them. It really might be smarter not to start anything.
But he waited until Jake let himself in the front door, only then acknowledging how disappointed he was not to catch a glimpse of Laura.
And admitting how much he wanted to see her again.
Writing this book made me think about being a mother, and how fierce that love is. My daughters are adults now, and yet I still feel protective of them. One is involved in international development workâsheâs been to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer and was in Nepal with a small nonprofitâwhile my older daughter has a high-stress job in the film industry. Itâs not the same as when they were little and I agonized after a friend snubbed one of them, or watched as each headed off solo in a car, newly minted driverâs license in her wallet, but I still worry.
My quintessential, and most ridiculous, moment as a mother came years ago when we were camping with my parents. We were about to head into a limestone cavern in Montana when I discovered I was absolutely terrified of going underground. I mean knee-knocking, gasping panic attack. I knew I was afraid of heights, but this took me by surprise. Of course I could have slunk back down the trail to wait for my family to emerge from the caverns. In a burst of courage, I realized that if my kids were going to die in there, I would be there to die with them. So I took a deep breath and plunged in, overcoming my fear.
Ridiculous, right? But there was truth in that moment. I channel it when Iâm writing a heroine like Laura Venetti, whose life has been all about her son since something terrible happened to him. But what is sexier than a man prepared to take on this boy and love him just as fiercely?
I hope you fall in love with Ethan, just as I did!
Janice Kay Johnson
An author of more than eighty books for children and adults, USA TODAY bestselling author JANICE KAY JOHNSON is especially well-known for her Mills & Boon Superromance novels about love and familyâabout the way generations connect and the power our earliest experiences have on us throughout life. Her 2007 novel Snowbound won a RITA® Award from Romance Writers of America for Best Contemporary Series Romance. A former librarian, Janice raised two daughters in a small rural town north of Seattle, Washington. She loves to read and is an active volunteer and board member for Purrfect Pals, a no-kill cat shelter. Visit her online at janicekayjohnson.com.
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âWILL YOU LOOK at this,â a complete stranger said reverently.
Only a few feet away, among the crowd in the aisle between vendor tables at this opening day of the gun show, Ethan Winter couldnât resist taking that look, even if the guy hadnât been talking to him.
The price tag caught his eye first. $12,500. He had to shake his head, even if it was a Perazzi MX3 ORO twelve-gauge shotgun with original case lying there. Engraving, gold inlays, damn near mint condition.
Still nothing that would tempt him. After a moment, Ethan wandered on, leaving a cluster of men staring covetously at the shotgun and listening to the vendor expound on its virtues. His gaze continued to rove the exhibit hall, and he half listened to the buzz of conversation around him, picking out snippets here and there.
