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    Circle Eight Millennium: Lazarus
    Circle Eight Millennium: Lazarus
    Circle Eight Millennium: Lazarus
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    Circle Eight Millennium: Lazarus

    By Beth Williamson

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    Circle Eight Millennium1

    Lazarus Graham has always been the black sheep of his family. Leaving behind the ranch his family had owned for nearly 200 years, he lives life as a Texas Ranger. Tough, hard and inflexible, he has no time for life's fripperies.

    Beatrice Cartwright never expected to run into her childhood nemesis again. Yet Laz Graham sauntered into her store to investigate a crime nearby. Then the man had the nerve to not remember her.

    Being a Graham isn't easy, and it's about to get a lot harder for one stubborn lawman and the woman who still owns his heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeth Williamson
    Release dateAug 9, 2016
    ISBN9781943089055
    Circle Eight Millennium: Lazarus
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    Beth Williamson

    Beth has never been able to escape her imagination and it led her to the craft of writing romance novels. She’s passionate about purple, books, and her family (not to mention long cruises). She works full-time and writes romance novels evening, weekends, early mornings and whenever there is a break in the madness.She is compassionate, funny, a bit reserved at times, tenacious and a little quirky. Her cowboys and western romances speak of a bygone era, bringing her readers to an age where men were honest, hard and packing heat.For a change of pace, she also dives into some smokin’ hot contemporaries, bringing you heat, romance and snappy dialogue.Beth is a Career Achievement Award Nominee in Erotic Romance by Romantic Times Magazine, in both 2009 and 2010.

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      Circle Eight Millennium - Beth Williamson

      Chapter One

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      September, 2015

      Brier Creek, Texas

      Hell and biscuits.

      Beatrice Cartwright peered at the shards of broken glass under the edge of the counter. The broom and the vacuum hadn’t reached it. There was no help for it. She’d have to move the case.

      This was not good news.

      She’d have to remove the bolts from the bottom and then find some burly redneck to move the damn thing. The last two days had been a nightmare and it kept getting worse.

      Bea?

      She peeked over the top of the case to see her friend Kim standing at the door. The window beside Kim was busted. That was how the thieves had entered the store.

      Kim twirled in a circle, her dark brown and purple hair swirling with her. She’d been trying to cheer up Bea since the burglary. What do you think? Chloe just redid the color. She pursed her lips and posed like a model on a catwalk. C’mon, Queen Bea, gimme something.

      Bea grimaced. Don’t call me that. She got to her feet. I’m trying to get this place cleaned up so I can reopen.

      The thief had done more than steal inventory. He’d caused thousands of dollars in damage. It was the first time she’d had something like this happen since she had taken over the store. It was frustrating and frightening, but she couldn’t let it stop her from moving forward. Bea was one of the few female business owners in town. She’d be damned if she failed to keep her parents’ store open because of one idiot.

      Kim looked around, her brown eyes wide. Why the hell did they break all the glass?

      I could probably guess, but the truth is, I have no idea. Bea set the dust broom on one of the few display cases that wasn’t broken. It’s not like I have any inventory in here at night. It’s all in the safe. All they got was ammunition, cleaning supplies, and a few range bags. Mostly, they broke shit.

      Kim shook her head, the purple locks shining in the sun streaming through the broken windows. Asshole.

      True dat. Bea sighed. The crime scene techs took all kinds of fingerprints and stuff. The cops said a Texas Ranger was going to come by to investigate. Something about a string of break-ins across the county. My insurance company adjuster left about an hour ago. Now I wait for the ranger.

      What about the glass? Did you call Lenny Redman? Kim was an eccentric girl who could put people off. If it wasn’t her sense of style, it was the camera. She always had it with her and snapped pictures of everything, including of the jagged pieces of glass in the store.

      He’s gone over to the McLellans’ place. He’ll be back later. Bea didn’t really look forward to the town glazier’s visit. The cost to replace so much glass would be staggering. She worried her insurance wouldn’t cover everything that needed to be fixed or replaced. And her display cases were the ones her father had bought forty years earlier. No doubt she couldn’t replace them and, if the glass was irreplaceable, she would be heartbroken to lose another piece of her parents’ legacy.

      Do you want some lunch? Kim offered. I was going to meet Rose at the café.

      I’m not in the mood to eat. You go on and enjoy. Bea wanted to wallow in self-pity for a while. Much as she loved Kim, the woman had more energy than half a dozen toddlers hopped up on marshmallow Peeps. Right about then, Bea hardly had the wherewithal to smile.

      Text me if you change your mind. Kim hugged her, the scent of lavender and vanilla washing over Bea. They’d been best friends since third grade and Kim was the one constant in her life.

      After Kim left, Bea went back to inventorying the shelves and taking pictures. It was boring but it was something. Otherwise, she would spend too much time nursing her anger over the burglary. And the damn ranger who was at least an hour late.

      She spotted the flyswatter behind the cash register and snatched it up. She crouched down beneath the large display case again, intent on getting the glass shards out without moving the damn thing.

      Hello? A man’s voice rang through the interior. Is anyone here?

      Bea got to her feet, the filthy flyswatter in hand, her kinky blonde hair flying. Standing there in the doorway was the very last person she ever wanted to see in her life.

      Lazarus Graham.

      All six foot two of him with rich, dark brown hair, beautiful eyes, and shoulders wider than the state of Texas. He’d gotten bigger in the last ten years, which only served to accentuate the sheer size and masculinity of him. Oh, he was a perfect specimen.

      Too bad he was such a pompous ass.

      Laz didn’t know whether to howl or curse a blue streak. Beatrice goddamn Cartwright. He should have remembered the store belonged to her parents, but since he and his sisters hadn’t frequented the gun shop much as kids, he’d rarely stepped foot inside. Until the moment he saw the girl who had hated him since they were eight.

      Fuck.

      What the hell do you want? Her sharp whiskey voice cut through him.

      I’m looking for the owner. That sounded as stupid as a bag of hammers.

      You’re looking at her. Now get out. She waved a ratty-looking flyswatter toward the door. Two steps behind you.

      No.

      Her blonde brows went up toward that frizzy halo of hair. Freckles still smattered across her nose and cheeks. And the one feature he could never quite forget, those beautiful breasts, strained against a Firefly T-shirt that had seen better days.

      Jesus please us. She was still a knockout, not that he would ever tell her that. Bea hated him almost as much as he disliked her. It annoyed the hell out of him that he found her hot and sexy.

      "You do realize this is a gun store? I am armed. She gestured to her waist. At all times."

      Any Texan worth his salt had a gun handy, but she took it to another level. The woman knew more about guns, weapons, and their capabilities than any person in Brier Creek. She’d threatened more than once to shoot his balls off.

      Laz needed to get control of the situation and his reaction. So he pulled out the only tool left in his arsenal, being a hard-ass cop.

      Miss, are you threatening an officer of the law? You do realize that’s a crime. He put his hands on his hips. I’m here to investigate. If you are the owner, then I suggest you work with me. I’m Ranger Graham.

      The shock on her face gave way to disbelief and then finally to cold anger. Are you trying to tell me you don’t know who I am?

      "If

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