Waiting for Sparks

Waiting for Sparks
Kathy Damp

Sometimes love is right in front of youEmma Chambers wasn't supposed to be spending July Fourth rescuing a handsome stranger and the holiday festival. New to town Doug "Sparks" Turner has an important job to do, yet it's Emma who's feeling the heat. No way the roving fireworks designer is the man she's been waiting for, right?Helping Emma makes Sparks long to name this his permanent home. Too bad Emma isn't staying, especially given the life-changing secret she's discovered. What Sparks is hiding could also keep him from earning Emma's trust. Unless he can make her see that he's a man worth taking a chance on.

Sometimes love is right in front of you

Emma Chambers wasn’t supposed to be spending July Fourth rescuing a handsome stranger and the holiday festival. New to town Doug “Sparks” Turner has an important job to do, yet it’s Emma who’s feeling the heat. No way the roving fireworks designer is the man she’s been waiting for, right?

Helping Emma makes Sparks long to name this his permanent home. Too bad Emma isn’t staying, especially given the life-changing secret she’s discovered. What Sparks is hiding could also keep him from earning Emma’s trust. Unless he can make her see that he’s a man worth taking a chance on.

Sparks laughed and chucked her under the chin.

His touch set off so many alarm bells that Emma forgot to watch for the inevitable with Trouble and the lake. The dog shook the water from himself, gathering velocity as the shake intensified. Sparks and Emma ducked behind the cottonwood tree that had been there ever since Emma could remember.

That tree would be gone, as well. No need for a shade tree under bazillions of gallons of water.

She turned to Sparks. “It really is true. It’s not just that the town is out of money. It could also be flooded?” Surprise tears stung her eyes. Why did she care? She was leaving as soon as her plans were finalized.

Sparks’s shoulder, so close to hers, invited her to snuggle into him, hoping he’d tell her everything would be all right.

Dear Reader (#ulink_df5d2947-cfde-54d5-8c63-0047849a51a3),

As a teen, I handwrote pages and pages of romance novels after discovering Mills & Boon books in my Adirondack Mountains village library. Years later, welcome to my first novel for Mills & Boon Heartwarming, titled Waiting for Sparks.

While staying by a lake with the same too-blue-to-believe water as is in my book with my husband and border collie—the model for Trouble—I thought: What if this place was Heaven for one person and another couldn’t wait to leave? Then, the hero, Sparks, introduced himself. And I met Emma and her grandmother Nomi. Soon afterward, I knew secrets and running after what you think you want would make a great story.

I hope you get caught up in this special place and its people just as I did. I’d love to hear from you.

Kathy

Waiting for Sparks

Kathy Damp

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

KATHY DAMP loves to write about characters who discover they are more than they know and who realize that saving the world can take many forms. Walking on fire this past summer caused her to wonder what else she could do that she didn’t think was possible. When not writing, she rides bikes and kayaks with her husband throughout the West.

To my Adventure Guy and husband, Fred. Without your unflagging support, Emma and Sparks would never have gotten together. Thanks for always being willing to stop the car one more time to explore a novel idea. Here’s to ever so many more adventures.

Contents

Cover (#u5096fbb3-c3ca-52f3-a454-bcdef3007ff5)

Back Cover Text (#ueaee0b98-e3a2-5aa9-bd33-1a95891602ee)

Introduction (#u370e2a99-a17b-5d55-8246-ed73c0bdcbb7)

Dear Reader (#ulink_b0f0a0d0-4286-5403-83b9-24a2d479c7ba)

Title Page (#u1a2e2ef0-c7d8-5e52-8fc4-1dab2f2f727d)

About the Author (#uff83405c-9341-5584-9487-61b155a8ad1a)

Dedication (#u7dc3dffb-c653-58d5-a019-3b606a71228e)

CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_800b8334-c111-5bb0-a639-12236a0e2c74)

CHAPTER TWO (#ulink_24d4060d-36d2-5e58-bb6e-4459ff4f624a)

CHAPTER THREE (#ulink_2b5391d4-2e6b-5906-85cd-58999695a7e3)

CHAPTER FOUR (#ulink_3fa64673-63df-5a69-82e6-958586c85bb2)

CHAPTER FIVE (#ulink_fa893814-3637-5d51-844a-1ddf233701e8)

CHAPTER SIX (#ulink_0130ac3b-c495-5170-81e8-6bfb6aad69b1)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#ulink_5dd5646e-6940-525a-854f-9a5e7af6a2a1)

CHAPTER EIGHT (#ulink_3377f67c-28bf-5a34-b506-2c5cb2585ccb)

CHAPTER NINE (#ulink_e997428d-3aa7-5f01-b128-e7d74d2bd27b)

CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

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