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Book: Faint Heart by Lizzie Ashworth

categories: Book, Entrepreneur, Food Business, Widow, Loss of Husband, Loss of Parent, Construction Business, Learning to Trust, Sexual Assault, Falling in Love, Grief, Mourning, Childhood Scars, Contemporary Romance

Lizzie Ashworth

about this book: After the tragic loss of her beloved husband, Cara Carson slowly looks to the future with a specific plan in mind. She loves to cook. She loves to nurture. What could please her more than a tidy little carry-out place where she can do both? From now on, she can love her work without risking her heart.

She chooses the perfect vintage house in a high profile location and discovers a friendly, older contractor to perform the remodel. But when the day arrives that construction is supposed to begin, she can't get the contractor to return her frantic calls and some dirt jockey and his bulldozer are running roughshod over her landscape.

He can't hear her furious shouts over the sounds of his heavy equipment so she charges across the muddy ground to stop him. Only she had no idea how muddy and the next thing that happens is her feet are mired and she can't move. Cheeks burning, she has to endure this grinning ape picking her up and carrying her out!

Said ape, Morgan Woods, has his own issues, one of which is women who have no common sense. His company faces financial crisis, his dad is too sick to work, and the last thing he needs is another delay. Grudgingly, he stops to rescue the lady in distress only to regret his gentlemanly instinct as soon as he swoops her up from the mud. Holding her in his arms for the treacherous route to firmer ground, it takes all his strength not to respond to the electricity flying between them.