the island, staring at his tablet with a notebook in front of him and Mabel at his feet. He scratched his head and looked up at his dad, who leaned across from the other side. Neither one knew she was home yet, and she took a good long while to drink them in. Her men. Her heart.
“But Daddy, this doesn’t make sense. I hate math.”
“I hear ya, Benny, because I’m not great at it either. Poppy will help you when she gets home.”
Benji cocked his head to the side. “Is she smarter than you? Liam says girls aren’t smarter than boys.”
“Liam doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
“So is she?”
“Hell, yeah.”
“That’s a bad word.”
“We might want to keep that one between us. You know how Nana hates bad language.”
Poppy stepped inside the kitchen. “I won’t tell.”
They both looked up just as Mabel started to bark, and for that one perfect moment, Poppy felt as if her heart wasn’t big enough for this. As if this love was too much to handle. But then Boone was in front of her, a smile on his face. And then his mouth was on hers, and her head was spinning.
“Eww. Can’t you take that somewhere else?”
Poppy peeked over Boone’s shoulder and chuckled at Benji’s scrunched-up face and horrified eyes. God, she loved him.
“I love us,” she said simply, resting in the arms she’d dreamt about since she was sixteen.
“Ditto.”
She yanked her head back. “You’ve been watching Ghost again.”
Boone grinned. “What can I say? Swayze was a god.”
What could he say indeed? She reached for another kiss, and just before they touched, she whispered, “Ditto.”
And to Benji’s great disgust, they didn’t take the kiss somewhere else.
Shake the Frost
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SHAKE THE FROST
Ethan Caldwell’s life changed the day his buddy crashed his bike and ended up in a coma. Carrying the blame for that day is one thing, but the torch he carries for his best friend’s wife is something else entirely. He retreated from town; content to rebuild engines and work on custom rides at his place on the lake. This life he’s fallen into is enough, until the one woman he needs to stay away from appears at his door asking for help, and everything changes.
At thirty-two years of age Emily Davenport is something she thought she’d never be: a widow. Stuck living in the shadows, she clings to the memories of her past and finds herself drawn to the only man who understands her pain, Ethan Caldwell. He wants nothing to do with her, but Emily refuses to give up. Not when he sparks something inside her, something hot. Something alive.
As winter approaches Crystal Lake, these two lost souls will have to shake the demons from their past, if they want to grab hold of some kind of future together.
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Shake The Frost
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USA Today bestselling author and 2015 RITA® winner JULIANA STONE fell in love with books in the fifth grade when her teacher introduced her to Tom Sawyer. A tomboy at heart, she splits her time between baseball, books, and music. She’s thrilled to be writing young adult as well as adult contemporary romance—books that have garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly & Booklist—from somewhere in the wilds of Canada.
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Also by Juliana Stone
A Crystal Lake Novel
The Thing About Trouble
That Thing You Do
A Little Bit Of Christmas
Love And Other Things
Love Me Forever
Shake The Frost
The Blackwells of Crystal Lake
You Make Me Weak - Free
You Drive Me Crazy
You Rock My World
You Own My Heart
The Family Simon series
Tucker -Free
Jack
Maverick
Teague
Grace
Cooper
The Barker Triplets
Offside - Free
Collide
Conceal
A Barker Family Christmas
Long Road Home
Standalone Novels
He’s All that