Title: Protecting Alabama
Author: Susan Stoker
Release Date: Oct 17, 2014
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Synopsis:
Alabama didn’t have a good start to life. Emotionally and physically abused by her mama, Alabama spent her high school years in foster care. People let her down, time after time, and she’d learned to rely on only herself.
Christopher “Abe” Powers earned his nickname because he tolerated nothing less than absolute honesty from the people around him. Finding the bar scene stale and having watched his friend and teammate, Wolf, find the woman of his dreams, Abe was determined to find someone to share his life with too.
Alabama and Abe had no idea their paths would cross and their prayers would be answered, but like most things in life, nothing is ever as easy as it seems at first. Two words would change both their lives and they’d have to fight hard for their happy ever after.
**Protecting Alabama is the 2nd book in the SEAL of Protection Series. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it’s recommended you read the books in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the series.
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Excerpt (Please choose one):
Excerpt 1 –
Abe took Alabama by the elbow when she got close to him. “I like your place Alabama.” He was surprised when she snorted in response. He smiled. God that was cute. “No seriously, you’ve done a great job at making this place comfortable. Oh I know, it isn’t fancy, but it’s you. It’s cozy and lived in. I’d much prefer that to living in a place that was hard and stilted and way too fancy. You’ve done a good job.”
Alabama looked up at him. Was he serious? She saw the small grin on his face as he looked down at her. Woah. He was serious. “Thanks,” she said softly returning his smile with a tentative one of her own.
Satisfied that she’d taken his compliment gracefully, Abe steered her out the door and held out his hand. “Keys. He chuckled at Alabama’s look of confusion. “Give me your keys sweetheart. I’ll lock your door for you.”
Alabama looked down at the keys she was holding tightly in her hands. Why did he want to lock her door? She could do it. She didn’t say anything though, and dropped her key ring into his outstretched hand and watched as he put the key in the lock and turned it. When he put her keys into his pocket after he was done, she couldn’t keep quiet.
“Give them back,” she said as sternly as she could, not looking into his eyes and trying not to panic.
Abe had put her keys in his pocket without even thinking about it. He’d naturally kept them, planning on being around to open her door for her when he brought her home again. At her tone of voice he took a second look. Alabama was panicking. It was obvious, especially to him as he’d been trained to read body language. He immediately put his hand in his pocket to retrieve the keys.
“Don’t panic sweet, here they are. I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare you. I didn’t even think about it. I wasn’t trying to keep you from your home.”
Alabama breathed in a sigh of relief and closed her fingers around her keys again. He was right, she had been panicking. She’d once stayed at a foster home where the parents didn’t give the foster kids keys to the house. She’d had to sit on the stoop all the time waiting for them to get home and unlock the door. She felt like a stranger in her own home. One evening she’d been locked out all night because they’d gone on an overnight trip and hadn’t told her they were leaving. She didn’t like to ever be without a way to get into her house ever since. She nodded at him in embarrassment and thanks, and dropped her keys into her purse.
Protecting Caroline (#1) – Amazon | Amazon UK | Paperback
Protecting Fiona (#3) – Coming Dec 29 – Amazon | Amazon UK
Author Info:
Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state of Texas where she lives but this all American girl has also spent the last fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, and Indiana. She is quite the romantic and even met the love of her life on "Hotmail classified" before online dating and sites like match.com even existed!
Susan has been reading romance novels since middle school and once crossed out the names of the main characters in a book and changed them to her own and to the name of her crush. She's been writing scenes for years, developing her unique writing style.
Susan loves writing but her true passion is adopting dogs from rescue groups and shelters. Susan and her husband have had a total of nine "rescued" dogs since 2000 including a variety of basset hounds and bloodhounds. She has recently branched out and adopted a basset/terrier mix who acts more like a terrier than a basset (i.e. digging, eating a couch and being hyper).
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