He went to the bar, turned off the lights, checked the kitchen, leaving a light on in case she came downstairs, then went to his apartment behind the kitchen. It’s got a lock.”, “It’s okay. Vanuatu Turks and Caicos Islands AA Turkey She gets off the highway, hoping to find a motel, but becomes lost on the mountain roads, ending up in the tiny town of Virgin River. It happened all the time. Mexico I’m a pretty reliable guy. Slovakia For the first time since coming to this little town, he wondered why that dead bolt had ever been installed. Except a room. Preacher had also sent home their seventeen year old helper, Rick. Anguilla A fierce and unseasonably cold September wind blew chilly rain against the windows. Trinidad and Tobago She discovered by accident that there might be a little more to this equation—a certain chemistry that gave him such energy to work those long hours and wear himself out keeping track of her, the fits of euphoria, the skull splitting temper—some white powder in a small vial. “Got a suitcase I can get for you or anything?”, “I’ll get it for you. Martinique What came to mind was that this was the third time in her life she’d lain in bed looking at such a ceiling. I hate myself. Robyn is a recipient of the Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 2016, and in 2017, VIRGIN RIVER was named one of the HarperCollins 200 Iconic Books of the past 200 years. Hence my likening it to a soap opera. He was only there a few minutes when it occurred to him that there were no longer clean towels up there—he’d emptied the bathroom and moved all his downstairs. Romania Central African Republic I left some things up here, like my weights. Madagascar “If the weather’s decent, we usually stay open till at least nine.”. He took her the brandy and then went back to the kitchen. She’d gone to beauty school after high school and stayed home with her mother, paying rent, until she was twenty-one. Singapore He was a solitary kind of guy. But she knew he was crazy. My Side of the Mountain is the story of a boy named Sam Gribley who ventures out into the wild to make his home in the forest of the Catskill Mountains. Sao Tome and Principe The upside was—it worked a lot. She let her quilted shoulder bag drop to the floor and pulled the child closer, hugging him tight, stroking his back. Mongolia Chile Cyprus And getting drunk never really appealed to me.”. She’d been styling his hair for only a couple of months when he asked her out and took her to a restaurant so fine, the hostesses were better dressed than she was. It was thrilling. “I got off the highway, looking for a town with a hotel…”, “There aren’t many places wide enough to turn around,” she said. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. He treated them like wallpaper, furniture. Angola When they couldn’t afford to go out, they’d buy popcorn and cheap wine and make a party of it at home, gossiping about women whose hair they cut and frosted, about boyfriends and sex, laughing till they couldn’t sit up straight. I sure appreciate it. “I’m the cook here. "I could have had a shot--it sometimes slows labor. But I’m way safer than I look. Ukraine That’s a pretty name. Um… Paige… you don’t have to be worried or anything. He stood there a minute. Suriname The wind caught the door and it flew open with a bang, bringing him instantly to his feet. Dry off.”, “Thanks,” she said meekly. Glad to help out.” He cleared his throat. India Latvia Mauritania She went to the table by the fire and when she saw the drink, said, “Is this where you’re sitting?”, “Go ahead. Okay?”, ”Paige, you look like you could use some rest, and if the boy’s coming down with something, you don’t want to take him out in that cold, wet mess.”, She thought about it for a second and then said, “How much?”, He laughed in spite of himself, then sobered quickly. She gave him a small, shy smile, but her eyes were downcast again. Kazakhstan Ah. A lot of traders used amphetamines to keep up with the demands of the job. I can do drama in romance but this was a slow read for me and it was really hard to keep going. “Kid,” he said, and smiled. “I’ll get out first thing in the morning.”, “Don’t worry about it. Tajikistan He just never understood what satisfaction a man could get out of hitting a woman. Her face badly bruised, and her body and heart worse, Paige is looking for somewhere to spend the night just so she can get her bearings and then move on, but Preacher sees a woman and child in need of a safe heaven and does all he can to gently ensure Paige feels she can stay. It was bear and deer hunting season, but it was unlikely any hunters would pass en route to or from lodges and blinds at this hour, in such weather. Take it,” he said. I mean, if the kid’s got a little bug or something…”, He lay the boy gently on the bed, strangely reluctant to put him down. “I never used to curse at all. Netherlands Antilles You just lock your door and rest easy.” He gently and clumsily lifted the little boy into his arms. Norfolk Island She’d often thought how much more she’d like it if she only had to do it about six hours a day, four days a week, but that seemed an impossible dream. Zimbabwe. She didn’t take it from him so he put it over the boy and tucked it around him. If a woman makes a difference, under the circumstances.”. Estonia If you’re not used to those roads.”, “A little scary,” she admitted softly. San Marino Shelter Mountain (Book) : Carr, Robyn : "John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. Who did that to you?”. Life like this, covered in bruises, afraid I’ll be killed everyday—or a life of being someone else, someone who isn’t hit? And the last hour or so off the freeway, that must’ve been pretty awful. He plucked the suitcase out of the back; it was way too small for someone who was taking a trip. Colombia Robyn's new women's fiction novel THE VIEW FROM ALAMEDA ISLAND, released in April 2019, deputed on four bestseller lists: The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly! Pat and Jeannie didn’t like him, but there was hardly a mystery in that. Country Rwanda Shelter Mountain (Book) : Carr, Robyn : "John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. “There isn’t anywhere around here to get a room,” he said when he returned to the table. Liberia But when Paige’s ex-husband turns up in Virgin River, the safe heaven and home Paige and her little boy have found is under threat, as is the man she has come to care for. “Right,” Preacher said. Congo © copyright RobynCarr 2021. “What d’you think? Seychelles Okay?”, “I’m not putting myself out any—it’s just an empty room. Marine veteran John "Preacher" Middleton intimidates just about everyone who walks into his bar. Get in the Valentine's Day mood with our... To see what your friends thought of this book. She sat up cautiously and smelled coffee. Will I be lost? I used to go to mass, when there was a mass. She wore jeans and her curly brown hair was tucked through the back of the ball cap like a pony tail. Thanks.”. And bread. ', http://www.robyncarr.com/shelter_mountain.html. He put that and some butter on a plate. When he was back in the upstairs room, she was sitting tensely on the edge of the bed, her son behind her. Belize They’d been in his fancy car, parked, having an argument about where she was living—he thought she’d be better off at home with her mother rather than that old half a house in a questionable neighborhood with a couple of dykes. John (Preacher) Middleton—The 32-year-old cook at Jack’s Bar, this Marine friend of Jack’s is as tender as he is strong. All rights reserved. If anyone came looking for you, I’d never mention seeing you.” Her eyes grew round and her mouth stood open slightly. She wasn’t attracted to passive men. Mozambique Antarctica Bolivia Kiribati Preacher didn’t have a lot of experience with carrying around children, but he liked the way it felt. She can give medicine, see patients… She takes real good care of the women around here. He had to put the seat all the way back and his knees still rubbed against the steering wheel. Passive men couldn’t get the kind of success he had. © Reprinted by permission. “Come on, don’t cry.
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