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    Once in a Lifetime Match: Perfect Match, #7
    Once in a Lifetime Match: Perfect Match, #7
    Once in a Lifetime Match: Perfect Match, #7
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    Once in a Lifetime Match: Perfect Match, #7

    By EmKay Connor

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    She found the love of her life…then lost him. Can a computerized matchmaking program help her find another perfect match?

    Five years after losing her high school sweetheart to cancer, Skylar Kent is ready to take a chance on love again…maybe. She's not convinced technology can match her with a man who will touch her heart and soul like the incredible passion she experienced the first time, but she wants more from life than memories and dreams. Hoping to meet a man who is kind, caring and compatible, Skylar applies to be featured on the high-tech reality TV dating show, Perfect Match, but immediately second thoughts when she gets the call, announcing she's been matched.

    Tuck Wilson is just a regular guy looking for a regular girl to build a life with. Since blind dates and the bar scene haven't panned out for him, he decides to quit waiting for love to come along and instead go find it. Well, maybe not love, but something like it.

    When Tuck arrives in Barefoot Bay and meets Skylar, the chemistry is instantaneous and off the charts. But can a man ready to face the future convince his once in lifetime match to let go of her past?
     

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    This story is set in a world based on Roxanne St. Claire's Barefoot Bay Series; it is published with the permission of Roxanne St. Claire. Visit her website for links to her books and more information.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmKay Connor
    Release dateDec 12, 2017
    ISBN9781386414759
    Once in a Lifetime Match: Perfect Match, #7

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      Once in a Lifetime Match - EmKay Connor

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      The first thing Skylar Kent always noticed when she entered the NICU at San Diego’s Children’s Hospital was the silence. Babies were supposed to cry and google and coo. The tiny infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit—NICU—were barely holding onto life. Some didn’t even have the strength to breathe on their own, let alone make a sound.

      Gradually the whoosh and hiss of the machines helping to keep the fragile babies alive distracted Skylar from the silence, which always seemed fraught with hopelessness and despair. Emotions with which she was well acquainted. Emotional baggage she was getting tired of carrying around. Lately she’d noticed flashes of anger? resentment? frustration? in the grief that still consumed her.

      Instead of pushing away the memories and ignoring the painful flood of emotion they triggered, Skylar had begun allowing the heat to melt off the edges of the numbness that had encased her heart since Tommy’s death. She’d been on automatic pilot for more than five years. She’d built a wall around herself…but lately the impulse to pull down a few of those bricks had begun nagging at her.

      She’d realized, with something of a shock, it felt good to feel. Even when they lost Baby Josie, who’d been born fourteen weeks premature and weighed less than two pounds but fought so hard to make it, the sadness and sting of tears reassured Skylar she hadn’t lost the ability to experience emotion. After so much time not feeling, the visceral sensations were stiff and uncomfortable, like a new pair of shoes. It made her aware of how far she’d pulled away from life, from people, from friends and family.

      Coming back was tough. Warming up to people she’d once been close to was hard. Showing a genuine interest in the minutiae of life that people bonded over—like celebrity news and social media and fashion trends—was hardest for her. When your 26-year-old husband is diagnosed with leukemia and given six months to live, movies and memes and mini-skirts become First World problems.

      Still…

      She was trying.

      Having changed into scrubs—it being Wednesday, she wore blue, same as every Wednesday— and stowed her lunch—yogurt, half a peanut butter sandwich and an apple, same as every lunch—in the fridge in the staff lounge, Skylar reported in to the supervisor’s office for the shift change pass down. She was ten minutes early, as usual. Thirty minutes were allotted for the staff getting ready to punch out to update the staff coming on. As one of three neonatal nurses on the eleven p.m. to eight a.m. shift, the pass down was usually completed in under ten minutes. The other twenty minutes were usually spent trading updates on family life. Up until recently, Skylar had avoided these exchanges.

      Now…

      She was trying.

      Three nurses from the afternoon shift—Alma Deeds, an African-American single mom of three teen sons; Barb Watts, a gray-haired nurse whose brisk, efficient manner reassured worried parents; and Jenny Salt, the unit’s

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