Hard As Nails
Contents
This Old House......................1
All About Adam......................101
Man at the Door.....................185
Chapter One
Never tick off a woman holding a sledgehammer.
Cole Carruthers added that piece of wisdom to his
mental checklist for dealing with the opposite sex the second
he stepped into the entry of the three-story Victorian
house in the pricey Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C.
One glance at the woman standing in the living room off
to his right and he questioned the wisdom of being there at
all. He'd come to see an elderly woman about a house. Actually,
he'd come to get an elderly woman out of the house.
As his gaze wandered over his unknown companion's
khaki short-shorts, down her mile-long legs, then back up
to her rounded ass ... well, he knew one thing for certain:
right house, wrong woman.
He expected a greeting from someone bent over a walker.
The same friendly, white-haired someone who a month ago
sold this historically-protected property to his partners,
Adam and Whit Thomas. Looking at the peeling wall ... read full excerpt from: Hard As Nails ebook
