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    Retreat

    By Alanna Coca

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    *Bonus! Now includes the short prequel TREAT*
    Ten years ago, Andria Thomas celebrated her high school graduation with a retreat at a Wyoming guest ranch. She never expected to fall for a young cowboy during her horseback riding lessons. There was no way that she would sacrifice her well planned life for a long distance relationship with a guy she’d only known for two weeks!

    Now, after a bitter divorce, Andria returns to the V-Bar Guest Ranch, and is surprised to find that not only did Jake Walker still work on the ranch; he was running the place. The last thing she needs is another disruption, and re-treating herself to a fling with an old lover is not the way to relax and regroup. It was a good thing she’d have help resisting his charm, thanks to Jake’s wife. Time for a hasty Retreat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDark Mountain Books
    Release dateSep 26, 2011
    ISBN9781465858788
    Retreat
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    Alanna Coca

    Always a voracious reader, Alanna began writing poetry in grade school, and short stories in high school. She started her first novel, Wyoming Solace, years ago with a legal pad and pencil, often written in the wee hours of the morning when she needed something to do to relax. Before long the story lived on her computer desktop, where it sat patiently awaiting periodic visits from the reluctant writer. After her first release, she moved to romantic suspense and contemporary romance, but keeps the cowboys close to her heart. She loves to write stories to keep a reader guessing, and surprise them in the end. Alanna continues to write love stories, because who doesn’t love a happy ending? For a spicier selection of romance novels by Alanna, see what her alter ego Olivia Brynn is up to at oliviabrynn.com

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    • 5/5
      Sequel to Treat. College girl, grown/divorced and with a daughter returns to ranch of her college days. Can you really go back in time to a place in your memory and pick up where you left off? Does time stand still for anyone? Andi is now Andria and she returns to the ranch from the book Treat to try to help her young daughter through the divorce or does she? Is the trip to the ranch for her daughter or herself? Is she returning to see if the ranch hand of her past is still there and if she can ease her own emotions from her recent divorce?

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    Retreat - Alanna Coca

    Chapter 1

    Her headache just got worse.

    It went from a mild annoyance at her office, to worse since she’d been practically parked on the interstate, stuck in traffic for forty minutes, and breathing the exhaust of hundreds of vehicles. Andria Thomas used one hand to massage the spot between her eyes, and the other to turn up the air conditioning, though it was already cranked to the max.

    The accident ahead must be pretty bad. An ambulance had come from behind the long row of cars ten minutes ago, and was forced to drive on the shoulder in order to reach the scene.

    Someone was hurt. Somebody’s loved one, so Andria forced her impatience aside. It looked like she would be confined to her driver’s seat for a while. Good thing she didn’t have anything pressing to do.

    She scanned through the radio stations for anything worth listening to. She needed something upbeat. Something to draw her out of this funk. No, maybe something sad and sappy to match her mood. Station after station, still nothing.

    She turned the radio off completely, and glanced at the portfolio on the passenger seat. That innocuous envelope would change her life forever. All she had to do was sign each copy, and send them back to the judge.

    Why was she hesitating? They’d already called it quits. If not legally, then certainly emotionally their marriage was over. In that regard, they’d been divorced for months. Years maybe. There was nothing left in the marriage to fight for.

    Except Jessica. Their daughter would end up taking it the hardest. They’d just celebrated her seventh birthday, and even that joyous occasion had resulted in a stupid fight about … what was that fight about? God, who knew anymore. Their daily arguments about the most ridiculous things seemed to be the only time they even talked. How was she going to tell Jessie about this? Would she even be surprised? She had to have noticed her parents’ discord. Kids were smart that way.

    If only she could take her away for a few weeks, just the two of them. No work, no hassles, no fighting with

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