Books & Spoons Book Blast with Tasty Book Tours: MEN OF MERCY - RESURRECTION RIVER by Lindsay Cross22/10/2015 
Redemption River, Resurrection River and Reckless River Men of Mercy books 1 – 3 By: Lindsay Cross Releasing October 21st, 2015. Self-Published 
RESURRECTION RIVER: Men of Mercy # 2
Ranger James accepted his best friend’s death like a good soldier. With guilt. Regret. Vengeance. But a forbidden desire keeps pulling him from his mission… Desire for his best friend’s widow. Killed in Action. That’s why Rachel Carter’s husband wasn’t coming home. A war widow, alone and broke, Rachel struggles to revive her family’s crop dusting service to survive. Now she takes to the skies to find escape. Escape from the pain. From the guilt. From the earth-shattering desire for her husband’s best friend. Rachel and Ranger can’t fight the attraction between them any longer. But one fateful night cleaves their new found love in two...Can they find the will to fight for true love? Or will an evil so shocking destroy their lives for good? Review:
The heartrendingly beautiful story of a man's love, love that endures more than ever imagined.
The paralyzing sorrow, the numbing anguish of Rachel, when she battles to accept her husband's death, left me weeping. The hardship of the unknown future, sadness of life and dreams not to be fulfilled, worry about her baby, it is all so touching, pages filled with sadness. Ranger is there, every step of the way, helping her, supporting her, caring for her. Until she asks him to go away. Something he can't do. Ranger is not ashamed of his feelings for Rachel, he is willing to do anything for her. Nearly begging for her attention, for her love, fighting for a chance to prove to her, they were meant to be together. It is adorable agony, when Ranger fights for his love. Rachel, even after all the months of her husband's death, has the guilty feelings of moving on, something her mother-in-law loves to feed on. But the feelings that sparked life in their teenage years, are now in full flame, and through guilt, and torment, their passion and love wins. Slowly they start to build a relationship again, from the ashes of their past. Until twists in the plot changes everything again, tormenting them both. This story is very different from the previous one, yet still achingly beautiful. The love Ranger and Rachel have for each other is strong and real, but the pressure from outside, the guilt, keeps them apart. The little family unit they form is lovely, the support they give to each other a delight. But even though most of the story has focused on the poignant romance between Rachel and Ranger, there's still action in the tale. Action that is as brutal and raw as it can be. Halting fear and danger that will have you on the edge of the seat. The series has captured my mind, can't wait to read the next tale ~ Five Spoons 
Excerpt:
Rachel spun around, the yellow airplane a perfect backdrop to her beautiful face. “What are you doing here?”
Ranger let his gaze travel from her scruffy boots, torn jeans and gloriously figure hugging tank, to the top of her dark red head. Her pink cheeks flushed. “Like what you see?” Ranger approached, her green gaze turned wary. Good. She should be worried. She’d doused him in chemicals. His skin still itched. He reached forward, plucked an oil stick from her ponytail and sent her hair spilling to her shoulders. He caught the brief scent of flowers and oil. Rachel grabbed her hair, lips parted. Angry. Stubborn. Sexy. He held up the stick right in front of her face. “Oil stick.” Rachel snatched it from his fingers and tossed it across the room. “I told you to stay away from me.” Ranger shrugged, his brain still caught on the image of her jean-clad ass hanging out of that airplane. Forget Sports Illustrated. He had farm fucking fantastic right here. "Don't you think dropping that all-natural excuse for chemicals on me is a bit dramatic? If you want to get me naked all you had to do is ask." Ranger gestured to himself, sweeping his hand from his head down to his torso, Rachel's eyes followed. That definitely wasn't desperation or anger in her gaze. The desire he’d been trying to hold in check for months reared up inside him. "You think I want to see you naked?” Rachel snorted, lifted her chin. “Besides, I figured anything would be an improvement to your normal smell.” So much for her vulnerability. The wind picked up, blew into the hangar. Ranger shifted, praying the wind wouldn’t open the fly on his boxers, and almost covered himself. Almost. Until he remembered she was the reason for his stench. Instead, he stood tall. “You’ve never had a problem with the way I smelled before.” “My manners were just too good to say anything.” She strode past him, punishing him with the sexy sway of her hips. Dammit, he was so hard up for her, even her walk had his mind blanking. He stood there, nearly naked, and drenched in herbicide, and she walked past him like a stranger on a sidewalk. Running from him. Again. “Rachel Ann.” He didn’t yell, but she stopped mid-stride. Turned. Lips parted. “You did that on purpose,” Ranger said. She’d been hard headed even in high-school, when he tried to break up with her, explaining that he needed a little space to see if life in Mercy was what he really wanted. Jumping on the marriage and kids bandwagon at eighteen years old had scared the shit out of him. But he’d obliterated any chance for reconnecting with Rachel when she’d seen him making out with Tonya at the football game senior year. He hadn’t thought that leaving her to sow the wild oats of his youth would be a self-fulfilling prophecy of regret. Or that his best friend would move in on Rachel so fast and fill the void that Ranger had left in her heart. “You bet your ass I did.” “What the hell for?” He couldn’t get her smell, her taste, her touch out of his head. But she’d dumped shit on him for the last time. Her eyes narrowed and her lips flattened. “I warned you.” Yeah, she’d warned him to stay away from her. He’d stayed with her for weeks, helping her after the funeral. She’d healed physically, but remained an emotional tomb. “I promised Shane, if anything ever happened to him, I’d look out for you.” He wanted to take her in his arms and kiss that angry expression right off her face. He’d wanted her since high-school, but when she’d married Shane, he’d vowed to put those feelings away. Forever. But the attraction hadn’t disappeared. And he knew it never would. “I know the chemistry between us is weird. Scary. But dammit it’s real and it’s here and now. You’re just flying through the clouds because you don’t want to see what’s on the ground right in front of you.” If he hadn’t been studying every minute expression on her face he would have missed the brief flash of vulnerability in her gaze. Then her anger slid back in place. “The only thing I feel is annoyance. Are you so desperate that you have to chase after what you can’t have? You dumped me first, remember?” Him? Desperate? No. He’d never had a problem getting women. Until Rachel. If he hadn’t been so young and stupid he would have been the one she’d married. Not Shane. Now all he could think, all he could see, was the small sprinkle of freckles across her pert nose. He could be on a mission in a third world country or down the road. It didn’t matter. She affected him. He had an all-consuming need for his best friend’s wife. He hadn’t counted on lust eating him alive. But he had honor. He had loyalty. Ranger had vowed over Shane’s grave to take care of Rachel. 
Lindsay Cross is the award-winning author of the Men of Mercy series. She is the fun loving mom of two beautiful daughters and one precocious Great Dane. Lindsay is happily married to the man of her dreams – a soldier and veteran. During one of her husband’s deployments from home, writing became her escape and motivation.
An avid reader since childhood, reading and writing is in her blood. After years of reading, she discovered her true passion – writing. Her alpha military men are damaged, drop-dead gorgeous and determined to win the heart of the woman of their dreams. Website | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads 
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