One man’s honor is another man’s shame.
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Cover Blurb:
Meghan Carpenter loves God, her yarn business, and her
twin brother Ryan — a former marine who currently lives with her. When she
agrees to let his wounded buddy live with them on her small Indiana alpaca
farm, she expects an American marine. What she gets is a former Afghan
interpreter who’s painfully shy around women.
Scarred from the war, both physically and emotionally,
Basir Hamidi is grateful for a place to live. But his attraction to Meghan is a
problem. With his honor destroyed by events in his homeland, and nothing to
offer her but his broken, scarred self, he vows to avoid her and protect her
reputation. Yet he is drawn to her with a strength that can only be God's
leading. For a man who has lost everything, letting go of the past is a
difficult process. When he must also redeem his honor, his only chance of
success is to rely on God.
Excerpt:
The oven timer dinged, and Meghan grabbed a
hot pad. Golden-brown cookies filled the air with the delicious scents of
vanilla and chocolate. She set the tray on the granite counter, shut off the
oven, and then turned to the task of transferring chocolate chip cookies to the
cooling rack.
As she set the baking sheet in the sink,
the front door opened. Meghan’s heart jumped, and she hurried from the kitchen,
eager to see which of Ryan’s friends would be living in her house. She stepped
into the hall and spotted her brother and a swarthy-skinned, black-haired man wearing
huge dark sunglasses. Each of them carried a black suitcase.
Ryan grinned as his friend closed the door.
“Hey, Meghan, this is my buddy Basir Hamidi. Basir, meet my sister, Meghan.”
The black-haired man removed his sunglasses
to reveal a pair of wire-rimmed glasses and scar tissue around his tawny-brown
eyes. “Thank you for letting me stay in your home.”
Meghan swallowed her surprise at his heavy
accent and pushed aside her sorrow that he had endured something terrible to
cause the scars. Regardless of what he had been through, the only thing that
should matter to her was helping him to feel comfortable in her home. She
offered a warm smile and clasped her hands at her waist. “I’m glad I had an
empty guestroom for you. I’ll let Ryan give you the grand tour of the place
while I put the finishing touches on lunch, but remember that this is your
home, too, for however long you need it.”
“Thank you.” He inclined his head, his
right hand over his heart. Then, he lowered his hand and glanced at Ryan.
Her brother slung an arm around Basir’s
shoulders and guided him to the stairs. “Your room’s up here.”
Meghan returned
to the kitchen and struggled to wrap her mind around her new houseguest. She’d
expected an American marine, but her brother had brought home an Afghan man.
Had Basir somehow become a marine? Had he been part of the Afghan army?
Questions flowed in a steady stream as she chopped hardboiled eggs for the
chef’s salads she’d planned.
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Author
Bio:
Award-winning author E.A. West is a lifelong lover
of books and storytelling. In high school, she picked up her pen in a creative
writing class and hasn’t laid it down yet. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys
reading, knitting, and crocheting. She lives in Indiana with her family and a
small zoo of pets.
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