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Under An Adirondack Sky (Chapters 1-3 excerpt)

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adirondacks adult adventure camping canoeing contemporary family fishing harlequinheartwarming heartwarming hiking love rafting romance teenagers whitewater wilderness young

Can he juggle everything...including her? 

After raising his siblings and running the family pub for more than a decade, Aiden Walsh has set his own dreams aside. Until the most beautiful woman he's ever seen stumbles into his bar, and his arms. Too bad Rebecca Day is the school psychologist in charge of his brother's future. Who's he kidding? He doesn't have room in his full life for romance anyway. But forced to join Rebecca and her group of troubled teens on an Adirondack wilderness adventure, he realizes keeping his family afloat isn't enough for him...not by a long shot.All Rights Reserved

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