Maybe This Time (The Educators Book 3) (15 page)

Someone To Believe In: Amazon
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Close To You: Amazon
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Taking The Heat: Amazon
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Meet the O’Neils: Bailey, the Street Angel who fights conservative senator Clay Wainwright for funds and Washington support to do her work; Aidan, her older brother who falls for a Secret Service agent guarding his sister; and Liam, another older brother and a sensitive widower with a troubled seven year old who meets, loves but can’t have daring firefighter Sophie Tyler. Read all three or as stand-alone full length novels.

Still The One: Amazon
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In book one of the Educators series, Annie Jacobs has made something of herself after a rough adolescence. She’s the mother of twin boys, a respected and well-liked English teacher and has good friends. But when her former high school teacher, Dylan Kane, comes back to town, Annie’s carefully created world starts to crumble. She and Dylan have a past, one which almost destroyed her. Now, he wants to be the next principal of her school. Annie’s afraid their previous relationship will endanger the job she loves. She’s even more fearful that her feelings for Dylan will rekindle, or worse, never died.

Someone Like You: Amazon
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In book #2 of The Educators, teacher Brie Gorman and Coach Nick Corelli come together to help the star of the football team. A fiery passion erupts between them, even when they clash over the best way to save the boy’s life.

Maybe This Time: Amazon
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In book #3 of The Educators, Maybe This Time, teacher Delaney Dawson and lawyer Gage Grayson hook up before they know he's the father of one of her students. Putting aside their feelings, they try to help Gage’s daughter stay on the straight and narrow. All three are threatened by the deadly violence which is about to erupt in their school.

The Betrayal: Amazon
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Darcy Weston and Jordan Mackenzie meet as teenagers when she flees to her grandparents’ abandoned farm in upstate New York and he helps hide her. Twelve years later, she’s a famous painter and he’s published a book, one that reveals secrets he kept for her years ago. The two are thrown together over murder, police investigations and their irrepressible passion for each other.

The Father Factor: Amazon
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When law student Nick DiMarco meets school counselor Amanda Carson, they clash over the best way to handle his very depressed daughter. What they don’t expect is a passion for each other that they can’t deny.

Just One Night: Amazon
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In
Just One Night
, polar opposites Zach Sloan and Annie Montgomery married despite their differences, then divorced because of them. Five years later, they come together during a tragedy and in the aftermath, conceive a child. But will the baby be able to keep them together this time?

A Price Worth Paying: Amazon
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A Price Worth Paying
is Kathryn Shay’s sizzling new summer read that includes passion, romance, a sexual predator, infidelity and the enduring love of two characters whose marriage withstands the unthinkable. This is a major original novel by the author who reviewers say has “earned a well deserved place among the top romance authors.”

Finally a Family: Amazon
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Visit Guardian Flight Base, a medical helicopter unit with a crew that routinely performs daring rescues. But when the pilot falls for the CEO of a foundation who may fund them, conflict of interest abounds. Researched at a real life medevac operation, FINALLY A FAMILY has the kind of grit, realism and emotional situations that Kathryn Shay is known for. Previously published by Harlequin.

Michael’s Family: Amazon
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The last thing widower Luke Rayburn expects--or welcomes--is his adopted son Michael's request to find his birth mother.  But the boy's insistence brings beautiful, haunted Meredith Hunter into their lives. And with Meredith comes a secret that could destroy them all. “With brilliant characterization and sizzling sensuality, Kathryn Shay gifts us with an emotional powerhouse of a love story.”  RT Book Reviews

Practice Makes Perfect (Serenity House): Amazon
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Fifteen years ago they spent time at Serenity House, a home for troubled girls. Now, as adults, they’re women to be reckoned with. In Practice Makes Perfect, Paige Kendrick is a successful doctor who keeps people at a distance and refuses a relationship with hunky doctor Ian Chandler. But Ian won’t stop until he gets what he wants—Paige! “Heart wrenching and poignant.”

A Place to Belong (Serenity House): Amazon
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When they meet at her daycare, Darcy O’Malley and Hunter Sloan have more in common than they know. Both have troubled kids, both grew up as outcasts in their hometown, and both find a deep and driving passion for the other that cannot be denied. Highly emotional and poignant, Shay continues her Serenity House trilogy with a winner!

Against the Odds (Serenity House): Amazon
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When she was eighteen, troubled Anabelle Crane fell in love with Nathan Hyde, the town’s fair-haired boy. He broke her heart and she left town to become a highly valued undercover cop. Now she’s back in Hyde Point to guard him against a stalker and he’s a congressman. But some things haven’t changed and Anabelle and Nathan find that the passion they have for each other has not died!

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Welcome to SERENITY HOUSE, a trilogy about women who spent some of their adolescent years in a group home for troubled girls. Each story explores what effects their dysfunctional backgrounds had on them. Trust—not being able to trust—is a big issue for all three. But with the help of those who love them, each woman overcomes her difficult beginnings and becomes the person she was meant to be.

Home for Christmas: Amazon
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To most people, high school principal Seth Taylor is a hero. But Seth has never forgotten the mistakes he made years ago with his students. And neither has Lacey Cartwright, because one involved her brother. But attraction then love flares between them and Lacey fears she’ll she loose what’s left of her family. Originally published in 2000 as A Christmas Legacy by Harlequin Superromance

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When Captain Mitch Lansing is assigned to Cassie Smith’s high school classroom, sparks fly. He’s by-the-book, and she’s unorthodox and innovative in her teaching methods. But when Mitch develops an unstoppable bond with her students, Cassie finds her attraction to him irresistible.“ An emotionally powerful tale that leaves you breathless.” RT Book Reviews

Because It’s Christmas: Amazon
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To most people in town, high school principal Seth Taylor is a hero. But Seth has never forgotten the mistakes he made years ago with his students. And neither has Lacey Cartwright, because one involved her brother. But attraction then love flares between them and Lacey fears she’ll she loose what’s left of her family. “Rich characterizations and emotional intensity.” RT Book Reviews

Count on Me: Amazon
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Zoe Caufield and Kurt Lansing were once deeply in love—until he betrayed her. Now, Kurt’s back in Bayview Heights, running a clinic where her students volunteer, and he wants another chance with Zoe. But she’ll never trust him again, and there’s nothing he can do to win her back. Or is there? “A fascinating and emotionally gripping story.” RT Book Reviews

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Bayview Heights has one of the best educational systems in the state, but they have their problems, too. Gangs are encroaching from the city, the town newspaper is criticizing them, and an angry board member objects to some innovative classes. These issues frame three intense romances where teachers must overcome personal issues as well as professional ones.

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Turn the page to take a look at the first novella, IN TOO DEEP, in Kathryn Shay’s next work: an anthology of novellas called
America’s Bravest
, about firefighters on a Rescue Squad in upstate New York.

Chapter Excerpt from
In Too Deep

Chapter 1

Dreading the news he was about to give, Captain Gabe Malvaso stared out at his group of firefighters, who sat in the big couches and stuffed recliners of the common room of Firehouse 7. In the back by the door to the kitchen stood the Hidden Cove Fire Department brass. A warm July breeze drifted in through the many open windows, but the soothing morning wasn’t going to help Gabe’s cause. His men and women trusted him, and so far in his eight years as their officer, he hadn’t had to deliver any bombs about cutbacks. From the rear, his cousin Mitch, now a battalion chief, nodded his encouragement.

Gabe cleared his throat. “Let’s get started. There’s been a lot of rumors going around and you can probably tell from Chiefs Malvaso and Erikson being at this little gathering that something’s coming down. And yeah, it’s what you expect.”

Murmurs rumbled through his group: Felicia White, his serious, aloof lieutenant who he already talked to about this; his paramedic, Brody O’Malley, a lively ladies’ man that everybody liked; firefighters Tony Ramirez, quiet and excellent at his job, Sydney Sands, their feisty rookie and, finally, Rachel Wellington—sometimes called
Princess
because of her classy background. She was a good firefighter and sensible at work.

And with her steel-blond hair and wide eyes, she was about the sexiest thing he’d ever seen.
That
had been causing Gabe problems for a while now.

O’Malley spoke up first. “So, somebody’s going to get the ax on Rescue 7, right Cap?”

“Yep. And on Quint and Midi 7, too.” Those were the other two rigs in the firehouse, the first performing fire rescue operations, the latter a medical truck. The groups who rode them also had separate officers. “They’re having their own meeting. But we’re all cutting back on each shift.”

Sydney, the group member with the least experience at the on the squad, shook her head. “Oh, hell!”

“Syd, you’ll still have a job, though it’ll be another station house. You have some seniority in the department as a whole; plus we’re expecting retirements soon.”

She lifted her chin to keep up a good front, but her young face tensed, telling Gabe she was upset. The twenty-three-year-old already had had a lot of tough stuff to deal with in life. “I’ll have to break in a new bunch of clowns.”

The others didn’t joke. Losing a brother—or sister—that you fought fires side by side with was serious business in any fire department. And theirs was a special group, an experiment of sorts in affirmative action. Their rescue squad, which went to every fire in their area, was comprised of three men and three women to demonstrate how liberated the department was and to promote the recruitment of women. So far, after eighteen months, the experiment had worked well.

From behind Sands, Tony Ramirez put his hand on her shoulder and squeezed it. She covered his briefly with hers. The two often paired up inside a building and they’d become fast friends.

“I know this is hard for all of us,” Gabe added. “But we got no choice, guys.”

“Yeah, we don’t have to like it, though.” O’Malley’s tone was angry. Brody was a good guy but he couldn’t censor his words, and he caused Gabe grief from time to time.

“Chief Erikson is here today to give you some more information on what’s gone down and to answer any questions you have.” He nodded to the back of the room where Cal stood with Mitch. “Ready, Chief?”

Erikson pushed off the wall. “As I’ll ever be.” The tall, powerfully built man strode to the front with a commanding presence. Though Gabe wanted to climb the HCFD ladder as quickly as possible, he didn’t envy the chief today. Designated by the top fire guy, Noah Callahan, all the battalion chiefs would be answering tough questions this week.

“Hi, all. I’m not going to mince words. You’ve heard the rumors. For budget reasons, the mayor’s cutting ten percent of the fire department. But it gets worse. The town newspaper, the
Hidden Cove Herald,
which recently went to online publication, has been running a daily blog by a reporter, Parker Allen. She named the thing
Make It Right
, which galls me. Of course, she’s in full agreement with the cutbacks but wants more of our hide.”

O’Malley raised his hand.

“Yeah, Brody, what?”

“Do the powers-that-be know without a sixth firefighter, we’re all in more danger than usual?”

“I think they do.”

“Hell, Cal, firefighters were everybody’s heroes when our guys ran into the towers on 9/11. Now we’re just another organization to be cut.”