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    Marine in the Wind
    Marine in the Wind
    Marine in the Wind
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    Marine in the Wind

    By Heather Long

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    Freewill bound...

    Greg Rainwater lost a piece of himself in the deserts of Iraq, a piece his Shaman great-grandfather would call his soul. Heading to Freewill, Wyoming, the retired Marine hopes to find what he’s looking for. After one meeting with the beautiful Georgia Crane, he thinks he has found the missing piece. She has other ideas.

    Under her skin...

    Georgia gave up her dreams to look after her stubborn, ailing grandfather in small-town Freewill. Newcomer Greg isn’t helping by enabling the old man to break her careful rules every chance he gets. That doesn’t stop her from lusting after the hot Marine—she simply refuses to give into the desire.

    Sexual healing...

    Paired together by Madame Eve’s 1Night Stand dating service, Georgia is mortified, while Greg can’t believe his good luck. Distrust turns to attraction and irritation to desire, but can they bridge their differences and find what they’re missing—each other?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateJun 29, 2013
    ISBN9781613335581
    Marine in the Wind
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    Heather Long

    Heather Long is a USA TODAY bestselling author who likes long walks in the park, science fiction, superheroes, and Marines. Her books are filled with heroes and heroines tangled in romances as hot as her native Texas summertime.

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      Marine in the Wind - Heather Long

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement (including infringement without monetary gain) is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in, or encourage, the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Marine in the Wind

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      Copyright © 2013 by Heather Long

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-558-1

      Cover art by Mina Carter

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      ~DEDICATION~

      For my readers who never fail to make me push myself harder to tell the stories they want to read, and for my critique partners who never fail to support me even when I make them cry.

      Marine in the Wind

      A 1Night Stand/Western Escape

      Always a Marine - Book 15

      By

      Heather Long

      Chapter One

      Greg stepped down off the Greyhound bus into the cool air of a Wyoming morning. Mountains surrounded him and the sun shone down like a golden kiss. No one waited to board, so he swung his duffel over a shoulder and moved away from the bus so it could pull on down the highway. Apparently the small town of Freewill didn’t rate a stop inside the town itself.

      The bus pulled away and revealed A.J. leaning against a red, 1951 Ford classic truck on the opposite side of the two-lane blacktop. "Oorah, Marine."

      Chuckling, Greg walked across the street and shook his outstretched hand. Retired. Hello will do.

      I thought the other guys were coming up with you. A.J. patted the vehicle. Stow your bag.

      Tossing it in, Greg circled around and climbed in the passenger side. Miller and Jones had to catch a different flight. Miller’s post-op fever spiked and the doctors restricted him. Jones didn’t want to leave him there alone, so I’m on my own. Which he preferred, truth be told, and when the other two Marines insisted he head out, Greg was more than ready to leave Mike’s Place in the rearview mirror.

      Thanks for coming. I can use the assist.

      Maybe he could, but like Greg, A.J. craved the silence and respite of a slower life, defined by hard work, because a ranch couldn’t be otherwise. He’d turned down a billet at the facility in Allen, Texas, when offered. Instead, he’d returned to Freewill, and the changes in his easy smile and relaxed bearing were an endorsement for its restorative properties.

      Firing the engine, A.J. drove them through town. A sleepy place, with storefronts right out of a fifties television show, colorful window displays, decorated stores with doors wide open to let in the fresh air, and people waving as they drove past, all invited a person to stop in for spell. A.J. touched a hand to the brim of his hat for each and every one.

      The kind of town where everyone knew everyone else. No strangers lasted long before they were woven into the fabric of small-town life. He earned his fair share of curious looks, easy to discern at a twenty-mile-an-hour crawl, per the posted speed limit. He didn’t mind. He wouldn’t be in town much, since A.J.’s ranch lay outside of Freewill on several acres of pristine land with horses, forests, grasslands and mountains.

      Greg wouldn’t need the town.

      I have a date tonight, A.J. said. But there’s plenty to eat at the house, and I’m almost done re-roofing the bunkhouse. You can stay in a guest room ’til it’s finished. After that, you can move out if you like. Or not, your choice. Plenty of room, lots of work. You can start tomorrow, once you settle in.

      Today is fine. He’d been idle long enough and alone with the emptiness in his soul even longer. Honest work and back-sweating labor appealed to him. Just hand me some tools and point me at what needs doing.

      A.J. gave him a long look before he nodded. "All right. I’ve been putting off work

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