Above and Beyond
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3.9 • 20 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Give up while you’re ahead, ol’ boy. She doesn’t want you. Then he remembered the passion of her kiss, the taste of her mouth, the scent of her hair, the feel of her skin beneath his hands, and he knew he wasn’t about to give up.
While serving his country, Trevor Rule experienced the wrenching heartache of losing his best friend in a brutal attack. His grief is coupled with guilt when he falls in love with that friend’s wife by reading letters she’d written to her husband.
Kyla gave birth the same day she learned that her husband had been killed in a terrorist assault on Marine barracks. That was almost two years ago. Now, Kyla is struggling to rear her son alone…and wrestling with the longing generated by the handsome stranger who fortuitously enters their lives.
Except Trevor’s entrance into Kyla’s life isn’t accidental. He has sought her out not only because he feels he owes her and her child a debt he can never repay, but also because he remembers the impassioned words she wrote to her husband. Which Trevor took to heart.
Will her growing love be strong enough to forgive his deception?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three days after Kyla Stroud, the heroine of this overwrought romance novel, gives birth to a son, Aaron, in a Texas hospital, she learns that her husband, Sgt. Richard Stroud, has perished in a terrorist attack on the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Cherishing Richard's memory, Kyla resolves never to fall in love again. But about a year after the tragedy she meets Trevor Rule, a one-eyed hunk, who enters her life when he saves Aaron, now a toddler, from drowning in a mall fountain. Trevor later gives Kyla and Aaron a ride home after the failure of her car battery a prelude to a full-court romantic press. What Kyla doesn't know is that Trevor was friends with Richard, a fellow soldier wounded in the same blast that killed Richard. In a creepy twist, Trevor is armed with intimate details about Kyla's likes and dislikes from letters she sent her late husband now in his possession. Some readers will find Trevor charming, his actions well-intentioned, while others will consider him a perverse stalker. Fans of bestseller Brown (Deadline) will best appreciate this apprentice work, first published in 1986.
