A New Beginning
(The
Friessens: A New Beginning #1-4)
By Lorhainne
Eckhart
Genres: Adult, Romance
Book 1:
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a newthreat, one he never saw coming.
Gabriel is sick, and a trip to the doctor confirms Laura and Andy’s worst nightmare: Without a lifesaving transplant, their son won’t survive.
What Andy doesn’t count on, as he tracks down the young man who fathered Gabriel, as well as Laura’s estranged parents, is thata whole host of problems are about to be unleashed.
THE FRIESSENS: A NEW BEGINNING:
The Deadline (Andy & Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil & Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad & Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
**The stories in this series are romances filled with sexual tension, rough language, passion, the ideals of family, love and loyalty and The Friessen men in these stories are strong sexy alpha males. And are not your typical happily ever after.
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a newthreat, one he never saw coming.
Gabriel is sick, and a trip to the doctor confirms Laura and Andy’s worst nightmare: Without a lifesaving transplant, their son won’t survive.
What Andy doesn’t count on, as he tracks down the young man who fathered Gabriel, as well as Laura’s estranged parents, is thata whole host of problems are about to be unleashed.
THE FRIESSENS: A NEW BEGINNING:
The Deadline (Andy & Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil & Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad & Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
**The stories in this series are romances filled with sexual tension, rough language, passion, the ideals of family, love and loyalty and The Friessen men in these stories are strong sexy alpha males. And are not your typical happily ever after.
“Look, this is just for the night.”
Andy closed their hotel room door, setting the baby bassinets on the bed. This
had been the only room available, with two queen beds and a pullout sofa. Laura
had tucked Gabriel into one of the beds and he’d fallen asleep as soon as she
took off his shoes, but Andy was worried as he glanced over at their son. Laura
was nursing Chelsea, and Jeremy was lying on the bed beside her, kicking up his
legs.
“How’s he doing?” Andy slid his
coat off and dumped it over their luggage.
“He just wants to sleep, Andy. I
tried to get him to drink some water,” Laura said.
Andy nodded. “Let him sleep.
Hopefully, he’ll be better in the morning and these two won’t pick up whatever
bug he’s got.”
The last thing Laura wanted was two
babies sick along with Gabriel. Flu bugs and colds generally went through the
entire house, taking them all down one by one. The fact was that Laura was so
damn tired that her bones ached. Getting up twice a night to feed the twins was
starting to take its toll on her. On the bed beside her, as if reading her
thoughts, Jeremy started fussing, cramming his fist into his mouth.
“Andy, I don’t know how much longer
I can nurse these two,” Laura said. “When I feed one, the other needs feeding,
and then they both need to be changed and…” She glanced up at him and felt bad
immediately. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I’m just tired.”
“I know you’re tired,” he said,
picking up Jeremy. “Hey there, what are you doing, giving your mama a hard
time?”
Every time Andy held one of the
babies, it tugged on a spot in Laura’s heart. He loved them so deeply, and he
was an amazing father. He’d never allow anything to happen to them. At times,
Andy could be over the top; so strong and so unbending. She may have once
doubted his love for her, but never for the babies——not even for Gabriel, who
wasn’t his biological son.
“I’ll get Chelsea and Jeremy
bathed. You get some rest,” Andy said.
“I’d love to have a hot bath,” she
said, putting it out there for him.
Maybe Andy took that to mean something
else, as he sat beside her on the bed, sliding his arm around her. “Maybe after
I get these two down, I’ll join you,” he said.
After all, it had been a while
since they’d made love——before the twins, and Andy was not a man to wait. He
was hot blooded and so male, but he’d been patient. Whatever opportunity there
had been, well, she’d fallen asleep. They’d had nothing more than a chaste kiss
here and there; a touch, a caress, right before one of the twins cried out or
Gabriel raced in. They needed privacy and time, after she was rested. Right
now, she had a choice between loving her husband and letting him do all those
wonderful things that had her screaming out his name as he filled her over and
over, or wrapping her arms around her pillow and falling into a deep sleep.
Well, it was the pillow that won right now, hands down. She wondered if other
women felt the same way she did. She heard that marriages often went through a
rough patch after kids——and now she understood why.
Chelsea slipped off her breast, and
Andy’s eyes went right there. They exchanged babies, and when Jeremy latched on
to her other breast and started suckling, she leaned back against the pillow
and closed her eyes for just a minute. The next thing she knew, Andy was taking
Jeremy from her and tucking her in bed.
Lorhainne lives on sunny Salt Spring Island with her family where she is
working on her next novel.
The series sounds really great. Thanks for the generous giveaway!!!
ReplyDeletegreat excerpt...definitely has my attention!
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