No One But You. Brenda Novak

      

      New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes you to Silver Springs, a picturesque small town in Southern California where even the hardest hearts can learn to love again...

      Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn’t enough to pay the bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson Reed—the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but Sadie is out of options.

      Dawson has given small town Silver Springs plenty of reasons to be wary, but he’s innocent of the charges against him. He wants to leave his painful past behind and fix up the family farm so he can finally bring his dependent sister home where she belongs.

      As Sadie and Dawson’s professional relationship grows into something undeniably personal, Sadie realizes there’s more to Dawson than the bad boy everyone else sees—he has a good heart, one that might even be worth fighting for.

       Praise for the novels of New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak

      “Brenda Novak is always a joy to read.”

      —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

      “Brenda Novak doesn’t just write fabulous stories, she writes keepers.”

      —Susan Mallery, #1 New York Times bestselling author

      “The author deftly integrates topics such as coming to terms with one’s past and the importance of forgiveness into another beautifully crafted, exceptionally poignant love story.”

      —Library Journal on Discovering You

      “This Heart of Mine had such beautiful details that it captured my full attention—and had me sniffling and smiling while waiting to board my plane.”

      —First for Women

      “Another engrossing addition to Novak’s addictive series.”

      —Library Journal on This Heart of Mine (starred review)

      “With great sensitivity and an exquisite flair for characterization, Novak explores the ideas of redemption, forgiveness, and the healing power of love. This Heart of Mine is a potently emotional, powerfully life-affirming contemporary romance.”

      —Booklist (starred review)

      Booklist voted This Heart of Mine one of their Top 10 Romances in 2015.

      Also by Brenda Novak

      FINDING OUR FOREVER

      THE SECRETS SHE KEPT

      A WINTER WEDDING

      THE SECRET SISTER

      THIS HEART OF MINE

      THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS

      COME HOME TO ME

      TAKE ME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

      HOME TO WHISKEY CREEK

      WHEN SUMMER COMES

      WHEN SNOW FALLS

      WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES

      IN CLOSE

      IN SECONDS

      INSIDE

      KILLER HEAT

      BODY HEAT

      WHITE HEAT

      THE PERFECT MURDER

      THE PERFECT LIAR

      THE PERFECT COUPLE

      WATCH ME

      STOP ME

      TRUST ME

      DEAD RIGHT

      DEAD GIVEAWAY

      DEAD SILENCE

      COLD FEET

      TAKING THE HEAT

      EVERY WAKING MOMENT

      And look for Brenda Novak’s next Silver Springs novel

      UNTIL YOU LOVED ME

      available soon from MIRA Books.

      No One but You

      Brenda Novak

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      Dear Reader,

      I am so excited to introduce you to my brand-new series! Silver Springs is a fictional town of five thousand people modeled a little after the real town of Ojai, California, population 7,500. Like Ojai, it boasts some lovely Spanish colonial revival architecture and is nestled in a picturesque valley about ninety minutes northwest of Los Angeles. In order to keep the town unique, chain stores aren’t allowed. Instead, local business development is encouraged, and the whole area has an artsy, almost spiritualistic vibe. At the edge of Silver Springs, you’ll find a boys ranch called New Horizons, where a caring woman named Aiyana Turner takes in troubled boys and turns them into admirable men.

      The idea for this book struck me after watching a true-crime show where the son of an older couple came home one night to the farmhouse where he lived with his parents to find them murdered—and wound up getting blamed for their deaths. Several years later, the police were able to prove he hadn’t killed them, but I could only imagine how having something like that happen would change someone’s life. And since I was planning to write about men who’d once attended the same boarding school—some due to difficult backgrounds where they were orphaned or abandoned—I thought this idea would be really intriguing to explore, especially because the police would likely be even more suspicious of an adopted son with a reputation for causing trouble. Once the idea was born, my hero, Dawson Reed, stepped out of my imagination and onto the page, and, as you will soon see, he is not the kind of person most people think he is. I love to write stories like this one, where the characters overcome incredible odds and wind up proving—to themselves and everyone else—that they are far more than anyone expected. Here’s hoping you enjoy your visit to Silver Springs.

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      Happy reading!

      Brenda Novak

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