HER
HIDDEN HOPE (on-sale
April 21, 2020): Asking
for forgiveness is the hardest part. She once trusted him with her heart…but
will she ever trust him with the truth?With only two weeks to renovate her family’s Colorado B and B, struggling single mom Addie Ricci can’t turn away help. Especially not when it’s her handsome high school sweetheart, Evan Hawke, who’s offering to pitch in. As they repair the B and B, Addie and Evan also begin rebuilding their relationship…until a secret from their past threatens to bring it all crashing down.
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Excerpt, HER HIDDEN
HOPE by Jill Lynn
Addie
was straddling a fence between the
fields
of gratefulness and guilt, and she planned to hop down.
Soon.
Yesterday
afternoon, she and Evan had knocked out painting the cabinet bases and doors.
It had gone so much faster and better with his help. Then this morning the
coun-tertops had been delivered, and Evan had recruited his brother to help with
the heavy lifting.
They’d
needed him.
After
Jace took off, they’d spent the day attaching the countertop to the cabinets,
cut- ing it, filing, gluing. Through it all, Addie had been looking for the
perfect opening to talk to Evan, to bring up the past.
She
felt guilty as all get-out accepting his help without him knowing the truth.
And if finding out made Evan take off and decide not to lend any more
assistance, she could live with that.
She
just couldn’t live with the lie anymore. Even if telling Evan about Eli was the
hardest thing she’d ever had to do, she had to do it.
“I
all done, Mommy. I all done.” Sawyer dropped to the kitchen floor, proficient
in dramatics. He’d spent the day playing with Belay and cycling through various
activi-ties Addie had suggested for him—dunk-ing in a toddler basketball hoop
out on the porch, Play-Doh, stickers, coloring. He had also succumbed to a nap
at one point though he’d fought that option valiantly.
Addie
had used a baby gate to block off the porch steps, confining Sawyer to either
that space or the house throughout the day, and amazingly, that’s where he’d
stayed. Likely the props for that should go to Belay, Best Dog Ever and Toddler
Whisperer Ex-traordinaire.
“Can
you at least move yourself over to the booth by the breakfast nook?” Addie
asked Sawyer. Not that that option was much better. It needed work too. But the
kitchen floor was a mess. A definite con-struction zone.
He
kicked his legs. “I don’t wanna. Don’t wanna, wanna, wanna.” Belay nosed around
the lump of crabby boy, licking Sawyer’s knees that poked out of his shorts.
Sawyer giggled but still didn’t perk back up. Was he sick? Tired?
Addie
knelt and checked his forehead. It was clammy, but in a
running-around-all-day-need-a-bath kind of way. Not in a sick way.
Her
phone dinged from its perch on the breakfast-nook table, and Addie stepped over
Sawyer to check it.
“I
got another reservation for Old West- bend weekend!” She yelped, and Evan
popped out from under the kitchen sink, which he was reinstalling.
“That’s
great.”
“And
they’re staying all week.” She did a happy dance, and Belay joined her, tail
wagging, mouth grinning.
Evan
laughed that low chuckle that did too many things to her insides before
returning to his dark cave.
The
reservation was a huge relief. A stress, too, because of what still needed to
be done to the B & B, but like Evan had said, it would all work out.
Somehow.
It
had to.
About Jill
Lynn:
Jill Lynn pens stories filled with humor, faith and
happily-ever-after. She’s an ACFW Carol Award-winning author and has a
bachelor’s degree in communications from Bethel University. An avid fan of
thrift stores, summer and coffee, she lives in Colorado with her husband and
two children, who make her laugh on a daily basis. Connect with her at
Jill-Lynn.com.
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