The Heart of a Hero (A Spellbound Falls Romance)
Janet Chapman
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0515153206
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman welcomes her fans back to Spellbound Falls, where no one is immune to the magical powers of love…
Originally from the ancient mythical island of Atlantis, Nicholas has spent the last year deep in the mountains of Maine, serving as Director of Security for the Nova Mare and Inglenook resorts. Fully embracing his life in the twenty-first century, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to a trouble-prone employee, and is determined to keep her safe.
The last thing Julia Campbell needs is a man with a hero complex, especially one as handsome and imposing as Nicholas. All she has to do is keep it together until her younger sister turns eighteen, and then she can focus on her own life. But strange things have been happening at the resort—and it’s Nicholas who keeps coming to her rescue. When Nicholas is suddenly the one in trouble, Julia realizes he’s not quite what he seems—and that she’ll do anything to help the man who’s stolen her heart…
didn’t feel the first twinge of alarm until she arrived at an intersection she hadn’t been to before—having started leaving peppermint candies to mark the tunnels she’d come up. An hour later Julia finally had to admit she was lost. Honest to God, none of the tunnels seemed to lead anywhere. She should have stumbled onto something by now; a door, an opening in the side of a cliff—something. Julia stopped at a four-way intersection and sat down right in the center of it. Solomon, the
Maine’s indigenous plants and planning an alpine children’s garden.” Her smile went back to being smug. “In fact, the White-Clouds should be arriving any day now. “So, ladies,” she continued, standing to turn and face them. “What do you say we throw ourselves one all-inclusive baby shower? The spring equinox would be a good day to celebrate the little miracles created with wonderfully feminine magic, don’t you think? I’m sure we could get the weather to cooperate, and we can have a bonfire
apparently not only thought nothing of ordering around one twice her size, but wasn’t afraid to go up against one while being armed with nothing more than a stick and one hell of a temper. But then his mood lightened again when he pictured her squaring off against a small herd of bossy cats. * * * “I’m sorry I went back, Jules,” Nicholas heard Trisha say for the third time since they’d all started back down the mountain just before one o’clock. “I really needed my book bag to take with
there’s a very real possibility not even my dear mother-in-law’s wisdom and patience will be able to break down Julia’s defenses, and I’m afraid the first time she makes a mistake that she’ll quit.” “Don’t underestimate Rana. Or me,” Nicholas said quietly as he turned with a wave and walked out the door. He slipped on his sunglasses when he stepped outside, then shoved his hands in his pockets as he headed toward the barn. Considering Julia was obviously physically attracted to him, he still
distinguished, definitely forty-something gentleman I saw Adeline passionately kissing when they got out of the limo has never set foot on a hiking trail in his life.” “Love has the power to make men do amazing things to impress a woman,” Rana said, leaning back against the rail with a dreamy smile of her own. “Sometimes even compelling them to slay dragons and move mountains.” Julia got a little dreamy at that notion herself. That is, until she remembered she had better things to do