Blurb:
A new life coming
into the world disrupts Susan's quiet life ...
Susan Montgomery is used to a quiet, peaceful
life managing her apartment building, where the hardest problem is her grouchy
neighbor's leaky faucet. She soon finds herself dealing with a pregnant teenage
niece, a mysterious briefcase left behind by a tenant, and two very different
men vying for her heart.
A near-death experience gives Mac a new outlook
on life ...
Christopher "Mac" MacAllister is
trying to figure out how to "do the Christian thing." As a new
convert, he's drawn to Susan's love for life and for God. She's nothing like
the women he used to date; but can Mac compete with the guy who's come out of
nowhere and knows all the right things to say?
“My point is, a
month ago, I wouldn’t have wanted to be sitting here drinking coffee with you.
I mean…” Susan’s blush came on full force now. “Wait. That didn’t come out
right.”
“I get it. Why would a
sophisticated church lady like you want to have coffee with a heathen
construction worker like me?” Mac said.
“No!”
Susan said. “That’s not it at all. You think I’m sophisticated? Ha! I spent
most days in dirty jeans with either my head under a toilet or a paintbrush in
my hand.”
Surprise
crossed Mac’s face. “Tell me more.”
“I
manage an apartment building, like my dad did before me. Growing up, I followed
him around, with my own little tool belt. I became the son he never had. My
sister Emily is the girly one. She got out of the apartment life as soon as she
could. Went off to college, got herself married to a rich guy, and lives on the
fancy side of town. Me, I’m an apartment gal. I love it there. I love solving
problems for people, making their apartments into a home for them.” Susan
stopped, afraid she was talking too much.
Mac
grinned. “Working with your hands, doing something lasting, something you can
be proud of. That’s the kind of job I do, too.”
“What I was trying to say
earlier had nothing to do with your job. It wouldn’t be smart for me to go for
coffee with a guy who wasn’t a Christian I was attracted…” Susan broke off her
sentence, mortified she was about to tell Mac she was attracted to him. She
tried to hide behind her coffee cup.
A
grin spread across Mac’s face. Fortunately for Susan, Adam chose that moment to
reappear. He took one look from Mac’s cat-who-ate-the-canary grin to the
brilliant red color covering Susan’s cheeks and burst out laughing. “You too
seem to be getting along OK without me.”
Susan
glared at him. Mac scooted a chair out for Adam to sit. “Susan here was telling
me she’s glad you talked some sense into my head at the accident, or else she
wouldn’t be able to drink coffee with me.”
Susan’s
cheeks flamed even hotter. “That’s not exactly what I meant.”
Where to purchase:
https://www.amazon.com/Karen-Malley/e/B08HRDQ4QW/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Karen Malley links:
Website (with short-story blog posts)
Twitter
https://twitter.com/KarenLMalley
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20700661.Karen_Malley
Facebook
BookBub
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/karen-malley
bio :
Karen lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons. She works full time as a scientist, but enjoys writing in her spare time whenever she can find some! When not writing (with her left hand), she enjoys baking, volunteering at her church, camping, hiking, playing board games, and reading. She loves reading faith-based stories, because we can all use a happy ending.
Karen lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband and
two sons. She works full time as a scientist, but enjoys writing in her spare
time whenever she can find some! When not writing (with her left hand), she
enjoys baking, volunteering at her church, camping, hiking, playing board
games, and reading. She loves reading faith-based stories, because we can all
use a happy ending.
Comments
Good luck and God's blessings
PamT