THE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE
STREET
by Jennie Jones
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BLURB:
Gemma Munroe loves hard, laughs hard and plays
hard. Or at least she did before today. Her dream is finally within her grasp –
owning the toy shop in Swallow’s Fall. Only one person has the power to get in
her way: Josh Rutherford – the love of her life who kissed her and left her ten
years ago is coming home.
Josh
will be in town for five days. He’ll finally sever the ties to a youth filled
with poverty by selling the properties that are now his. He’s returning
healthy, wealthy and emotionally stable, and then he’ll leave forever. It’s all
in the plan. Everything…except for Gem. He never forgot her, but he definitely
forgot the effect she has on him. Now she’s got problems, and he can’t seem to
leave without trying to help her solve them.
(Author
note: every book in the Swallow’s Fall series can be read as a stand-alone
story.)
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EXCERPTS:
‘What do you know about Grandy’s
place?’ he asked.
Gem’s eyebrows shot up. ‘The
lonely homestead?’
‘Why d’you call it that?’
She shrugged. ‘It’s been empty
since he died. Most people just call it the house at the end of the street.
What’s it to you anyway?’
‘This and that.’
Gem’s exasperation bubbled,
overwhelming the original idea of coming out here to calmly persuade him to
leave town. ‘Is that all you’ve got? Why don’t you want anyone to know what
you’ve been doing?’
The way he bowed his head and
studied the ground, his broad shoulders slumped in some kind of despair, caused
Gem some remorse.
‘Are you in trouble, Josh?’ she
asked in a whisper. Maybe that’s why he was so evasive. Maybe he’d made a big
mistake. Maybe he’d been in prison. No, wait—he had a tan.
He smiled at her, the skin
creasing around his eyes. A little more depth to the crinkles now, suggesting
that he’d done a lot of smiling over the years. That he’d enjoyed himself.
‘No. I’m not in trouble.’ He
seemed to come out of his reverie. He lifted a hand and swept it through her
hair, brushing it back from her forehead. ‘Not the way you’re thinking.’
Gem stilled. The gesture was one
she remembered from their best-friend days of long ago, but there had been
nothing more than friendship in it then—this touch spoke of everything undealt
with and unsaid between them since their moment this afternoon.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Born and brought up in Wales, Jennie Jones loved anything
with a romantic element from an early age. At eighteen, she went to drama school
in London then spent a number of years performing in British theatres, becoming
someone else two hours, eight performances a week.
Jennie wrote her first romance story at the age of twenty
five while ‘resting’ (a theatrical term for ‘out of work’). She wrote a
western. But nobody wanted it! Before she got discouraged a musical theatre job
came up and Jennie put writing to one side.
She now lives in Western Australia, a five minute walk to
the beach that she loves to look at but hardly ever goes to - too much sand.
Jennie returned to writing four years ago. She says writing
keeps her artistic nature dancing and her imagination bubbling. Like acting,
she can’t envisage a day when it will ever get boring.
All of Jennie’s bestselling Swallow’s Fall series books can
be read as stand-alone stories.
Where to find Jennie Jones:
Twitter @JennieJRomance https://twitter.com/JennieJRomance
Where to buy The House at the End of the Street:
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