Depths of Lake (The McCain Saga #3) by Keary Taylor
Publication Date: October 14th 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance
~Summary~
It was another day at the ranch, training horses and working fifteen hour days. And then the last person I ever expected showed up. Lake McCain: a Marine, tall, ripped—and the best friend of my dead fiancé. Cal died to save Lake, and now Lake claims that he carries a debt to me that he can never repay.
I wanted to brush him off. But then my mom, the manager of the ranch, went and hired him. We spend hours working together with the horses. Lake doesn’t say much. He’s layered and dark and he tries to seem shallow and simple. But he isn’t. There are things under his surface that matter. He works, quiet and strong, and never once lets me down.
Until he confesses that he may be falling in love with me. I can’t deny that there is something between us. But a relationship? I just can’t. I’ve used up all my chances at love. My past relationships have ended in death or disaster, and now I have to live with all of that.
I’m Riley James, and there are depths to Lake—depths to myself—that I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand.
The McCain Saga
EVER AFTER DRAKE
MOMENTS OF JULIAN
DEPTHS OF LAKE
PLAYING IT KALE (January 20, 2014)
I wanted to brush him off. But then my mom, the manager of the ranch, went and hired him. We spend hours working together with the horses. Lake doesn’t say much. He’s layered and dark and he tries to seem shallow and simple. But he isn’t. There are things under his surface that matter. He works, quiet and strong, and never once lets me down.
Until he confesses that he may be falling in love with me. I can’t deny that there is something between us. But a relationship? I just can’t. I’ve used up all my chances at love. My past relationships have ended in death or disaster, and now I have to live with all of that.
I’m Riley James, and there are depths to Lake—depths to myself—that I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand.
The McCain Saga
EVER AFTER DRAKE
MOMENTS OF JULIAN
DEPTHS OF LAKE
PLAYING IT KALE (January 20, 2014)
~Excerpt~
“Thank you for this,” I say, my voice
small and quiet. “This was all you. You didn’t have to, and no one asked. But you did it. And for that, I’m grateful.”
Lake slides his hands into his pockets
and takes a few slow steps toward me.
His eyes drop to the ground at our feet.
“You know, for a long time, I’ve felt like I didn’t really matter. If that makes any sense. Being in the Marines helped some. But you know that feeling of emptiness?” he
looks up at me, his eyes opening up in a way that I can see. And I do know. “It was always there. But being here lately? It’s changed that. I love what we do here. I love working the ranch and the long days
and the feeling that I’m doing something good.
That I’m doing something important.”
He takes two more steps toward me. He’s close enough that I can smell him
now. The sweat of the day. The scent of his shampoo from this morning. And something that is so Lake that it sends
my head spinning.
“But it’s not just the ranch and the
work, Riley,” he says quietly. His voice
is low and warm, just like the day outside.
“It’s you, too. When I’m around
you, I feel like I matter.”
Something builds inside of me, something
that resembles a thousand hooves beating across the fields at sunrise.
One slow, carefully thought out step at
a time, he closes the space between us.
He places a hand on the wall on either side of my head, boxing me
in. His eyes study my face. My cheeks, my nose, my lips. His face is so close.
Something in my blood jumps to life, and
I’m staring at his mouth.
“What’s holding you back, Riley?” he
finally says. His voice is low and
rough. And there’s a mountain of
unspoken words behind it. “Why won’t you
let yourself go?”
~Sequel To~
~About The Author~
Keary Taylor grew up along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she started creating imaginary worlds and daring characters who always fell in love. She now resides on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their two young children. She continues to have an overactive imagination that frequently keeps her up at night. She is the author of THE EDEN TRILOGY, the FALL OF ANGELS trilogy, and WHAT I DIDN'T SAY. To learn more about Keary and her writing process, please visit www.KearyTaylor.com.
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~Giveaway~
This is definitely on my Birthday/Christmas Wish List, I'm dying to read this! I promise I won't be too picky towards the Marine element, I'm sure Mrs. Taylor did loads of research, but being a Marine Fiancé and been there since the beginning of boot camp, MCT, MOS, and him being stationed the last year and a half, and the year it took for him to get shipped off to boot camp, I just can't help but be a little picky.....I don't mean to be, I promise haha. But nonetheless, I'm so excited for this one! I absolutely love The McCain family, read all of them so far, so I can't wait to read about Lake! ;)
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