The Way Home
Chapter One
"So, will you marry me?"
Rebecca Gentry sat at her pine kitchen table and blinked at the man she loved,
not quite certain she had heard him correctly. In all her twenty-five years when
she had dared to imagine such a proposal, it had come nowhere close to this. She
had envisioned wildflowers, a declaration of love, and a man down on one knee,
holding her hand tight in his. Never had she imagined a plainspoken business
proposition.
She knew she was sitting there with her mouth open. She also knew he expected
her to say something. But the plain fact was, she couldn't think of anything to
say.
"You want me to marry you?" Rebecca questioned slowly, still not certain she had
heard him right.
"Yes."
Jake Tanner was a good-looking man, she thought as she continued to stare at
him. Not classically good-looking, but handsome in a rugged way. She never tired
of looking at his weatherworn face.
His green eyes looked hard as emeralds and the deep creases radiating from their
corners only added to the image of strength. His black hair was swept away from
his face in ... read full excerpt from The Way Home ebook
