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Going Home

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Reads 274
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Parts 9
Time 1h 8m

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Nate Hill is a rising star in Hollywood and everyone wants a piece of him. He's enjoyed all the attention...until now.

Feeling lost and alone, he sneaks away from his slave-driver-of-an-agent and flies home to Beaver Hill, Texas for a much needed break. Upon his arrival, he's delivered news that sends him reeling, and he feels more lost and alone than ever.

Emily Conrad and her two young children are experiencing their own emotional turmoil. Emily's husband has run off and left them alone without a word or reason why, leaving Emily to pick up the pieces and pay the mortgage on the ranch and home that she thought they'd been happy in.

With no place to stay, Nate settles in at the Conrad ranch in exchange for ranch work. He soon discovers that maybe Emily and her cute kids have more to offer him than just room and board. 

Nate and Emily are both faced with questions that they don't know how to answer. Will Emily's husband come home? Should Nate return to Hollywood, even though he's feeling like he's finally found a place to call home? Will Jake, the other man in Emily's life, let her go?

Sometimes we all need to go home, to go back to the place where we started, so that we can find ourselves again.

Copyright 2019 Krista BarrettAll Rights Reserved

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Buckley's Rowdy Ranch: Cam & Jessie

COMPLETED Welcome to Buckley's Ranch, full of sexy cowboys and all kinds of trouble! Lord 'ave mercy! Jessie is working as a stable hand, seriously confused over her feelings for the ranch owner and town flirt, Cam Buckley. She's hiding out on the ranch, away from her abusive brothers and old life which she left back in Australia. She's made a better life for herself out here in Montana, and it's going to stay that way. Jessie is also fitting in well with the rest of Cam's family, while trying to dodge Cam's psycho ex-fiancée, Lucinda Wright and her current boyfriend and Cam's ex-best friend, James Malcavoy. Cam and Jessie having a love hate relationship going on between them, but that's normal for a boss and employee relationship, right? Well, not for these two. READ THE FUCKING STORY OKAY?! I SUCK AT DESCRIPTIONS!!!!!! I'm sorry, I think-NO- I'm pretty sure I'm bipolar. So please read it, trust the captain and you won't want to leave the ship! Or ranch, or whatever. . .