Tempting Taylor
Chapter One
"He's going to take me. I'm really going along. It's
going to be so great. My first real field trip."
Melissa Bonner's squealing voice was so loud that Taylor
Barwick had to hold her cell phone inches from her ear.
"Slow down, Lissa, and tell me how you finally got him to
agree," she said, her voice pitched to its usually low, husky
timbre.
"This trip's a six-month photo shoot in China somewhere.
He's doing a spread for National Geographic and he's
going to take me along. He's really going to take me." Tay
knew all about the trip since Lissa had been talking about it
for a month. However, she let her best friend prattle on.
"We leave somewhere during the first week of April. I'm
going. Come what may, I'm going."
"Okay, I get it. You're going. He's going to take you along."
Her slight sarcasm was lost on her friend. Tay had known
for several weeks that Dave Bonner, a world-renowned photojournalist
and animal-rights activist, was going to spend from
six months to a year in God-Knows-Where, China, photographing
some endangered species or other. With a deep ... read full excerpt from: Tempting Taylor ebook
